《Pokemon - A Real Story》 Chapter -1 - Potential of Pokemon 1. White (low) 2. Blue (low) 3. Green (Normal) 4. Orange (Normal) 5. Red (Advanced) 6. Purple (Advanced) 7. Brown (Monstrous) 8. Black (Monstrous) 9. Void (Divine) Chapter -2 - Ranks of Trainers 1. Rookie trainer. 2. Beginner trainer. (By getting the certificate, participating in the Rookie tournament) 3. Intermediate trainer. (Must have at least 3 rare ranked Pokemons) 4. Advanced trainer. (Must have at least 1 Elemental ranked Pokemon) 5. Master Trainer. (Must have at least 1 Pseudo-King ranked Pokemon) 6. Pseudo Elite trainer. (Must have at least 1 King ranked Pokemon) 7. Elite trainer. (All the Pokemons in the main team should be King ranked Pokemon or higher) 8. Pseudo Champion. (Must have at least 1 Pseudo- Champion ranked Pokemon) 9. Champion. (one Pokemon in the main team should be Champion ranked and must will the Champion title) 10. Pseudo Master (Must have more than 1 Champion title from different regions) Chapter -3 - Ranks of Pokemon 1. Baby Pokemon ( Pokemon that are just born or Pokemon that are in their baby form like Togepi that can''t exert more power) 2. Beginner or Common Pokemon. 3. Uncommon Pokemon (Fully evolved Pokemons.) 4. Rare Pokemon (Pokemons, fully evolved or not but having total base stats more than 500). Mostly Pseudo-Legendary Pokemons are in this rank. Note:- Total base stats are not fixed like the game. It totally depends on how the trainer, trains his/her pokemon 5. Elemental Pokemon (Pokemon, that have evolved their elemental powers and affect a large area.) 6. Pseudo - King (Overlord of the forest or head of a stronger Pokemon tribe. They can change the environment due to their elemental powers.) 7. King (Elite 4 main Pokemons. Some of the weak and average legendaries are also in this rank.) 8. Pseudo-Champion. 9. Champion (Champion''s main Pokemons. Like, Lance''s Dragonite. Red''s and Blue''s main Pokemon.) 10. Master (Powerful legendaries like Mew, Mewtoo, and Oak''s main Pokemons.) 11. God (It is predicted that only Arceus has reached this level but the power of Arceus is not confirmed.) Chapter 4 - Notice Hello fellow readers. Since I just started writing this fanfiction novel 2 days ago, I will only be posting 1 chapter every 3days for some time with some bonus chapters. Don''t worry, after around 2 months there will be regular updates. Thanks for the support and comments on my light novel. I will post a bonus chapter today, just for the heck of it. Enjoy the chapters. - S.e.xy imagination Chapter 5 - Training "Hey there Nidoran, I m Axel Blaze and I want to make you the strongest pokemon that can even beat Oak''s Pokemon. There will be some harsh training. Are you with me on this?" Axel asked. Nidoran just stared at his new trainer and the surrounding being confused at first. After he heard this trainer declaration he got excited and shouted "Nido!". "Okay, come back for now and rest. We will talk about our training tomorrow" he said and called back Nidoran in his Pokeball. Axel and father did some lunch in a restaurant and now it was time for them to separate in their ways. "See you later Axel, call home from time to time, your mother gets worried" Mr. Arron said. "Don''t worry dad, you know I can take care of myself and will call you when reach the next town" Axel went to Pokemart and bought some common Pokemon food. Specific food for pokemon, like specific Nidoran food, were very expensive. So Axel thought to buy recipes of Nidoran food and then make it himself. Recipes of specific Pokemon food were also vastly expensive but he was in good contact with prof. Bourne from the Hoenn region and he received the recipe with a huge discount. Mr. Arron gave him 20000 Pokedollars when he departed. So after paying for the recipe which cost 25000 Pokedollars and some daily necessities like Pokeball, potion, antidotes, and pokemon food for 3000 Pokedollars, he had only 2000 Pokedollars left. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª 2 Main quest has been generated through specific action. 1. Become a Pokemon Champion Gather all the 8 gym badges and participate at the Championship battle in Indigo Plateau. Completion time :- Within 2 years Difficulty level :- BB Rewards :- Decided on performance 2. Become The Pokemon Master Become Pokemon Champion in 8 regions and then Battle the Pokemon Master. Difficulty level :- AAA Rewards :- Decided on Performance ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª He found this when he clicked on the Main quest tab in his status menu. The difficulty level starts form F, to FF, then FFF, E, EE,EEE¡­ up to AAA. Then it ascends to S, SS,SSS and then finally to X."So, I can get rewards from the system too? I wonder what this system''s goal is? It is called Cosmic System but there is nothing happening to me that will affect the whole cosmos. Ahh.. Well if it is meant to be then it is meant to be" Our protagonist was strolling inside the forest for about 10 minutes to reach Gringey city. He thought he would take 5 days to cross this forest and at the time, he would also train Nidoran. 80% of the Pokemon world is covered with the forest. There are very few humans in the Pokemon world. The last census said, the population of humans in the Pokemon world is only around 800 million. "Come out, Nidoran" said Axel. "Nidoran!!" shouted Nidoran in excitement. Nidoran looked ready to train. Ever since Nidoran was born, it always wanted to be a powerful Pokemon. It had heard stories of many powerful Nidorinos from its caretakers. Some of the stories were so bizarre that it thought the story was some sort of fantasy. "Nidoran, why don''t you show all your moves so that I can judge your strength" Nidoran showed his 5 moves. It couldn''t show the move ''Chip away'' as it didn''t have an opponent. "Hmm¡­ Nidoran poison sting on that rock once again" "Nido¡­.." It concentrated for a couple of seconds and then "..ran" 5 purple poison needle came out of its horn and then stabbed that rock. Stabbed may not be a correct term cause no damage was done to the rock, as the spot, that the rock was attacked had a bit of purple liquid. After showing its moves, it became tired and started breathing heavily. "Your attack is not very good. You have a good speed and defense but your special attack is very low." "Nido?" Nidoran was offended. It was one of the most powerful pokemon within its peers and now it hears that it is not even average. "Don''t get me wrong. If you want to be a normal Nidorino in the future, you are doing pretty well. But my expectation for you is very high. If you want to be the most powerful Pokemon then we need to train very hard." Axel said to motivate his partner. "Nidooo..ran" said the Pokemon with new vigor. "First of all, we need to raise your Physical stats. For 3 days we will do running in the morning to increase your speed and stamina. In the afternoon we will train some Physical moves like tackle and try to learn Horn attack. Then finally I will teach you to do meditation at night." "Nidoran". Nidoran didn''t have any clue what Axel was talking about but it was determined to get stronger. Seeing so much care that Axel was showing, it wanted to train even more. Axel wanted Nidoran to focus on speed, cause after it''s final evolution, it will be very big and heavy. Nidoking is not a fast Pokemon. Axel wanted to remove this deficiency of Nidoran. As for meditation, every living being has Aura in their body including Pokemon. It is just that some Pokemon like Lucario is efficient in it. Training in Aura helps Pokemon to have a calm mind which is essential in battle. Even if Nidoran doesn''t learn anything about Aura, meditation can help it to learn moves like focus punch and rest. "We will run for 10 Km and after taking some rest we will do some exercise. Yes, I will also join you." Said Axel. Then they both ran for 10 Km. After running for 5 minutes, "Breathe from your nose, not your mouth", "Get in a good posture when you are running" , "Nido!". Axel taught it the dao of running that he had been doing his entire life. Halfway through, Nidoran was very tired and couldn''t even move. It just fell on the ground. "Come on Nidoran, if you can''t even do this, how can you be the strongest Pokemon?." "NI..DO..RAN" said Nidoran feeling tired. It tried to stand up and after a few seconds, it did and then started to run. Nidoran had to take breaks once in a while for a few seconds to move again. After running about 9 Km, it couldn''t move even if though it tried its best. So Axel just said it to walk to the destination instead of running. For the last 100 meters, Axel had to carry Nidoran to finish it up. After stopping, it just closed its eyes to rest. "Alright, you did a good job and didn''t give up. Rest for 30 minutes and then we will do some other exercises." Axel said to his partner. After 2 days, Axel and Nidoran were running in the forest doing their 10 Km run. Nidoran had improved exponentially. It still couldn''t complete the run without taking rest but it didn''t have to walk and be carried to reach the destination. Nidoran also practiced tackle on the tree and now it could do considerable damage to it. Tackle and Peck also leveled up to 2. Yes, Nidoran''s moves could also level up. Axel had been training Nidoran on his speed and the way it should tackle it''s opponent so that it could do good damage and not hurt itself in the process. Axel had also created a training session where Axel will throw rocks at Nidoran and the Pokemon had to dodge it. It would increase its reaction time and be very helpful in battle. Meditation has not shown any result as it has just been only 2 days. While resting a bit, Axel asked "Hey Nidoran, do you want a Nickname?" "Nido.." It was looking at Axel as if saying, ''I don''t know. Why don''t you decide?''. "Okay, Mhmm.. I will call you Megalania. It is a mystical creature that has the most powerful poison ability. Of course, I will not call you that now. That name means something. So, you have to earn it. When I consider you to be the most powerful Poison pokemon than I will start calling you Megalania. Alright?" "Nidoooran" it said excitedly. After eating lunch, Nidoran started practicing tackle again. Practicing tackle raises its defense as it literally has to slam its body to a tree. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Nidoran''s tackle has level up to 3. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª After practicing Tackle for 3 hours, Tackle leveled up twice to 5 and peck leveled up to 3. "Take rest now. We will do the dogging session after a while". After practicing Dodging, they continued on their journey. Axel made the camp for the night and now Nidoran and Axel were Meditating. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª???¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª???¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Nidoran has started to learn Focus energy. (learned 20%) ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª "Ohh¡­ that is some good news. This is the first move that Nidoran will learn by training. Focus Energy can be an OP move if used effectively. If Nidoran can use this move fast, then it could land a heavy hit. I will have to think about it" Axel thought. Meditation was hard. And after training for a whole day, when you close your eyes to meditate, what do you think will happen? You fall asleep obviously. Nidoran was facing the same problem. Axel had to hit it on head multiple times to wake up the damn creature. After the training, it was time to eat. Nidoran''s food looked different tonight and when he tasted the food, he was shocked!!! Chapter 6 - Training and First Battle The food was immensely flavorful. It could feel its body getting revitalized as if a boiling car engine was being cooled rapidly. "Nido?" it said. "Do you like the flavor? You will get it every day from now but you have to train hard for it."Axel said. "Nidooran". Axel had finally studied the recipe for Nidoran''s food. The book of the recipe was very detailed with the Biology of Nidoran. The food especially harnesses its poison power and other elements as Nidoran could use dark, ice, steel, psychic, electric, ghost, water, rock, and ground type moves. Nidoran is a versatile pokemon that could use almost all the elemental moves. Axel also planned to do some changes in the recipe as Nidoking would be a dual-type pokemon, poison, and ground type. The ingredients of the food were substituted cause he found those ingredients in the wild. The main ingredients of the food were expensive, so Axel planned to get those ingredients when he starts to earn some money. After some delicious food, they both laid down and slept instantly. Next Day, "Aahhh¡­Good morning" Said Axel stretching his body in the morning. "Ni..do..rannn" copied Nidoran. Axel woke up and started stretching his body to do their normal routine and then to start running. Nidoran was still sleeping and refusing to move. After some motivation from its trainer, it finally decided to wake up. Axel noticed that Nidoran was a very ambitious and exciting Pokemon. But it lacked the discipline to achieve it. Axel had to motivate and shout at Nidoran to do the training. He planned to change this behavior of his Pokemon gradually. "Open status." ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Name :- Axel Blaze Race :- Demi human Alignment :- Neutral Profession :- Pokemon trainer (Rookie) Title :- None Health :- 120/120 Aura :- Locked Strength :- 9 Agility :- 24* Intellect :- 30 Leadership :- 0 Skills :- Active skills 1. Identify (Lvl 5) Passive skills None Pokemon :- Nidoran Pokedollars :- 2000* Sub quest - 0 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª He clicked on ''Nidoran'' Tab and saw the following :- ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon name :- Nidoran (Age- 3 months) Pokemon Nickname :- None Ability :- poison point Hidden ability :- Sheer force (Locked) Attack :- E Agility :- D Defense :- D Sp. Atk :- F Sp. Def :- F Moves :- 1. Chip away (Egg move) 2. Sucker punch (Egg move) 3. Venom drench (Egg move) 4. Tackle (Lvl 5)* 6. Peck (Lvl 3)* 7. Focus energy (25%)* ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª They started doing their training after eating their breakfast. After they completed their 10 Km run they came across a female Nidoran. It seemed like a spike got inside its body and it was walling loudly. After it saw the duo, it got ready to fight. Axel had been avoiding wild Pokemon as much as he could but now, he decided that Nidoran must battle to get some experience. F. Nidoran started with its horn attack. Axel said, "Okay buddy, just follow my instructions and we will be good." Nidoran started to concentrate. "Dodge, the attack and create some distance." Nidoran sidestepped when F.Nidoran charged its horn attack and backed off to create some distance. "Now, charge and use tackle". "Nido". It ran and used tackle, which connected successfully. F.Nidoran was critically hit and it was thrown 2 meters away and collided with a tree. The spike came off and it started to bleed. "Find an opening and keep using tackle. Play safe, dodge if you need to" Axel shouted. The F.Nidoran was distracted because of the pain and the blood. Nidoran concentrated and started using tackle. It missed a couple of times. But after 4 successful tackle, the F.Nidoran fainted. Because of the blood and bruises, it seems that it couldn''t make it and will die. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Nidoran has won the battle. Its attack increase to E+. Ding! Nidoran is comprehending Focus Energy (55%) Ding! Nidoran has started learning Horn Attack (10%) Ding! IVs and EVs of Nidoran has been unlocked Ding! Agility on EVs increased by 2 Ding! Chip away has leveled up to 2 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Axel got more than half a dozen of notification. "Hmm.. It seems that stats increase faster when it battles. Real experience should be the key." Chip away was a move that deals damage but ignores changes to the target''s stats. Looking for an opening, the user strikes, continually. Nidoran looked a bit tired and it closed its eyes to meditate. Axel was the one who taught it. After training, when it got exhausted, it will meditate and start to feel the air inside its lungs and concentrate on it. But when it meditated after being exhausted from training, it usually falls asleep. Axel had to wake it up to meditate repeatedly. This habit of Nidoran had still not improved. But accidentally, ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Due to continuous meditation, it has started to learn Rest (15%) ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Axel previously planned that they will be practicing elemental moves but after observing today, he decided not to do it. There were 3 reasons for it: 1. Nidoran was in the process of learning 3 moves and Axel wanted him to concentrate on those moves first. 2. After the battle with F. Nidoran, he realized that physical powers like Defense, speed, and attack were very important. F.Nidoran looked powerful than Nidoran but Nidoran won without many injuries due to its physical training. 3. Nidoran was only 3 months old. It had just ranked up from Baby Pokemon to Beginner Pokemon. At this age, the trainer should first concentrate on providing healthy food and developing the Pokemon''s body and potential by training them in Physical moves. Most of the trainers didn''t have any knowledge about this and they just trained their Pokemon without much planning. And the ones who knew about it also didn''t follow this procedure cause it took a pretty long time and it didn''t have that much of an effect on its battle powers. How very wrong they were. This procedure didn''t show the effect at the early stage but after the Pokemon is fully evolved, there will be a huge difference. There was also the ranking of Pokemons like there was a ranking of trainers. They were: 1. Baby Pokemon ( Pokemon that are just born or Pokemon that are in their baby form like Togepi that can''t exert more power) 2. Beginner or Common Pokemon. 3. Uncommon Pokemon (Fully evolved Pokemons.) 4. Rare Pokemon (Pokemons, fully evolved or not but having total base stats more than 500). Mostly Pseudo-Legendary Pokemons are in this rank. Note:- Total base stats are not fixed like the game. It totally depends on how the trainer, trains his/her pokemon 5. Elemental Pokemon (Pokemon, that have evolved their elemental powers and affect a large area.) 6. Pseudo - King (Overlord of the forest or head of a stronger Pokemon tribe. They can change the environment due to their elemental powers.) 7. King (Elite 4 main Pokemons. Some of the weak and average legendaries are also in this rank.) 8. Pseudo-Champion. 9. Champion (Champion''s main Pokemons. Like, Lance''s Dragonite. Red''s and Blue''s main Pokemon.) 10. Master (Powerful legendaries like Mew, Mewtoo, and Oak''s main Pokemons.) 11. God (It is predicted that only Arceus has reached this level but the power of Arceus is not confirmed.) They were doing their normal routine, but Axel noticed that Nidoran was not paying much attention. A slight arrogance could be seen from his face. As it has just beat its first opponent without many injuries it subconsciously thought that it didn''t need to practice hard enough Axel thought to motivate his Pokemon again. He told some facts and what he told shocked Nidoran to its very core. [Note: This novel will be a bit slow at first but if you are a Pokemon fan, you will not feel it and it will be very interesting for you. I m also focusing on my next fan fiction novel. Any fanfiction, u guys want to read let me know in the comment section. I m a huge fan of One piece and Naruto but the fan fiction novels of these worlds are really good. so I donot want to write it as I cannot add much in it. Plus the authors of these anime have done a really good job on explaining their world. So, if there are any worlds, like Harry potter or others that u think needs a bit of explaining or any which you would like to read, please let me know] Chapter 7 - Elemental Cores and First Trainer Battle "Nidoran, Do you know that your final evolution, Nidorino can further evolve?" Axel said. "NIDO¡­.!!!" Nidoran was shocked. As it was just 3 months and some days old, it easily believed its trainer. "Yes, it is called Nidoking. It is one of the king species. It is said to be extremely powerful Pokemon that can also beat powerful dragon type Pokemon." said Axel looking at the excited face of his Pokemon. "And I know how to evolve you to Nidoking. But you must be diligent and train harder okay?" asked Axel. "Nido¡­ Nidoran" it said. "You are a poison type Pokemon. For your poison to be deadly, You must first form your poison core. Of course, after we train and battle, the poison core will be created slowly, but I have a way to do it faster so that you could be powerful in a short time. This F.Nidoran is also a poison type Pokemon. You have to eat its meat and assimilate the poison bellow your navel while meditating. After you start to eat more poison type Pokemon and do this training, your poison core will be formed and it will get stronger. Your poison attack will also be greater" Elemental cores are formed in any Pokemon naturally. Only after evolving to its next stage could Pokemon ascend to the rank of ''Elemental Pokemon''. Normally Pokemons cannot ascend to Elemental rank as it is hard to train elemental powers. Axel came with this idea on his own by contemplating a lot of Chinese novels in his previous world. Nidoran hesitated when it heard its trainer. Apparently, Nidoran doesn''t like to eat meat. Its species is not herbivorous but this Nidoran is a vegetarian. Axel already knew that on the first day he met Nidoran so, he had been secretly mixing Pidgey meat in Nidoran food to get it accustomed to meat. Poor Nidoran had no idea about it. But after finding out its further evolution it finally decided to eat it. Axel wanted Nidoran to eat it raw, cause if it was cooked, the poison in the F.Nidoran body would diminish to great extent. But seeing Nidoran hesitating, he half-cooked the meat. Nidoran started to eat the meat and found the flavor not so different. After eating the meat, it meditated as it was told by its trainer. He didn''t want to train its elemental powers right now, but if a poison Pokemon came across, he wouldn''t hesitate to form its poison core. Axel didn''t get any notification immediately but he was not disheartened. During their training, They came across 3 Metapods but it was no problem for Nidoran. It quickly defeated the group. Its Focus energy and Horn attack completion percentage increased by 15 and 20 respectively. After 2 weeks, They could finally see the city, ''Gringey city''. It was at least 5 km far, but they could reach until 5 p.m. There had been some improvement with Nidoran. Its height has increased to 0.4 meters. Nidoran''s standard height is around 0.5 meters. Its height grew by 0.1 meter within 2 weeks. Axel assumed that Nidoran will surpass the standard height as it is just around 4 months old right now. Its horn had also grown and had finally learned horn attack yesterday. Focus energy is at 96% completion rate. Rest''s completion rate has also increased to 60%. Nidoran was extremely happy that it had learned its first move. It had battle a variety of wild pokemons like Pidgey, Ekans, Caterpie, Metapod etc. Its poison core was also in the process of being formed. The poison core may take some time because the progress was very slow. Some of its Stats also increased. Axel opened Nidoran''s status page: ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon name :- Nidoran (Age- 4 months) Pokemon Nickname :- None Ability :- Poison point Health :- 130/130 Attack :- E+ Agility :- D+ * Defense :- D+ * Sp. Atk :- F Sp. Def :- F Moves :- 1. Chip away (Egg move) (Lvl 3)* 2. Sucker punch (Egg move) 3. Venom drench (Egg move) 5. Poison sting (Lvl 2)* 6. Peck (Lvl 3)* 7. Focus energy (96%)* 8. Horn Attack* 9. Rest (60%)* Cores :- 1. Poison (5%)* ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Nidoran never liked to stay inside Pokeball. Axel tried it many times but to no avail. He ultimately thought that Nidoran would be like Ash''s Pikachu, so he let it be. "Let''s run from here. After we reach, we will take a long rest in the bed" He said. "Nido!.." As they were running, to reach their destination, they came across a boy not much older than Alex walking towards the city. "Hey mate, are you going to the city too?" the boy asked. "Yes, I am Axel and this is my partner Nidoran. How long have you been in this forest? Do you want to travel together to the city?" replied Axel. "Alright, I don''t mind. I m Bruno. Are you a trainer too? If yes, how about a quick battle?" Bruno asked. Axel looked into his partner''s eyes and seeing the determination, he agreed. They created a distance for the fight and Bruno threw his Pokeball. A red light came from the ball and a bird type Pokemon came into view. "Piii¡­ ". It was a Pidgey. The Pidgey didn''t look as healthy and energetic as Nidoran. Looking at the opponent''s Pokemon, Axel realized that Bruno was also a Rookie trainer. Nidoran immediately came to the battle stage and took a deep breath. "Pidgey, fly above and use gust" "Piiid¡­" "Nidoran concentrate and dodge it when it comes" Axel commanded. "Nido!!" . Pidgey flew at a height and flapped its wings and used gust. Nidoran dodged it, but not successfully. Nidoran was hit by it and it flew away 2 meters but it stabilized itself. "Nidoran, use venom drench on the ground." Venom drench was a move in which a Pokemon sprays the poison to its target. "Pidgey, use gust again" Bruno said. "Nidoran concentrate and dodge again." As Pidgey was flying above and using gust, Nidoran could only dodge. This gust was dodged perfectly. Nidoran''s training was showing its result. After a couple of unsuccessful gust, Pidgey was starting to get tired. Nidoran was also breathing heavily but it was not as tired as Pidgey. "Pidgey use peck" Bruno said. "Nidoran dodge and use tackle". Pidgey used peck, Nidoran tried to dodge it but it still got connected. Nidoran also used tackle at the same time, so both the parties were hit. Tackle was level 7 now so it affected Pidgey a lot. Pidgey crashed to the ground and was poisoned because of ''venom drench'' on the ground. "Nidoran, now use horn attack at full power" "Nido¡­. ran!!" Nidoran horn attack connected. Out of reflex, Pidgey used peck and tackle but it was poisoned again cause of Nidoran''s ability ''poison point''. Bruno was so surprised that it could not give any instruction. Nidoran used poison sting and horn attack to conclude the match. "You could use my antidote if you don''t have one. Your Pokemon looks very hurt" Axel said. "No need, I have one. Your Nidoran also looks very tired. But I have another Pokemon too¡­ Go Shedinja" "Shedinja" "Remember Shedinja, this is your final chance. If I have to take you to the Pokemon center again, I will throw you out of the team" "Shed.." Shedinja looked in very bad shape. It had bruises on its body. It looked like it was about to cry. "Is he abusing his Pokemon?" Axel thought. "Hey, why are you berating your Pokemon. And it looks very tired and hurt, I don''t think it can battle properly" "Shut up, you care about your pokemon, I know how to handle mine" Shedinja is by far the weakest Pokemon in Pokemon history. Its total base stat is 236 and it has 1 HP. Yes only 1 HP. So if in game, your attack connects then it is down. It is not however exactly the same in reality. But it does have very low HP. If its defense is breached then, a normal attack could faint it. A powerful attack like hyper beam could kill the Pokemon. It is illegal to kill a Pokemon in a Pokemon battle. But there is a clause in all the Pokemon battle contest that, if Shedinja is killed in battle than, there would be no repercussions. Yes, this is made for only 1 Pokemon cause it is so weak. Nincada, its pre-evolved form also doesn''t normally evolve to Shedinja cause of its low HP. Thus, Shedinja is an endangered species. "Shedinja use gust" Nidoran did an easy dodge without any command from its trainer cause of all the battle experience it got. Shedinja used gust multiple times but it didn''t connect. Losing his mind Bruno shouted, "Shedinja win at all cost.. Now!!" Being afraid of losing its trainer, it used tackle. "Nidoran, use peck" Both of them collided and Shedinja couldn''t stand after that. "If you hate Shedinja, then why did you catch it in the first place?" Axel asked. "I didn''t catch it. Nincada was my starter Pokemon but it evolved after some time. When it was evolving, I told it not to evolve, but it evolved anyway and Ninjask and Shedinja came to be. But the evolution didn''t go as planned and Ninjask died. Now I have this Pokemon that is useless" Bruno glared at Shedinja who was in the process of fainting and shouted "You haven''t won any battle after you evolved. Your recovery cost is so high that it is making me mad. Go where ever you want. From now on you are not my Pokemon." "Shed.. Shed .. .. Shhedd¡­ Shedinja" it said crawling to its trainer cause apparently of the battle it could not even fly well. Shedinja was crying heavily and begging its trainer to take it back. But it angered Bruno even more. So he threw Shedinja Pokeball in the grass and ran from there. "Shed¡­..Shedinjaaaaaa!!" it was crying very loudly. Its incompetence had finally made it alone. Nidoran looked at Shedinja and his trainer, and felt very glad that Axel cared about it very deeply. Nidoran came near Shedinja and started patting its head to calm Shedinja. Shedinja was still trying to crawl toward Bruno but he was long gone. Axel was horror-struck by seeing this scene. He really hated trainers that don''t take care of their Pokemon properly. He started looking at the sky and remembered how he had to give up his Dog ''Marcus'' in the previous world. In his previous world, when Axel was in school, his parents were always busy because of their work. They had a puppy called Marcus. Marcus was very excited and a bit violent dog. It used to bite the guest sometimes. His parents didn''t have time to take care of and train the puppy properly. One day, he came home from school and found that his parents had given Marcus to a dog club. Axel cried for 3 days and didn''t talk to his parents for a very long time. Seeing Shedinja like this, tears came from his eyes. Axel crouched down towards Shedinja and asked, "Hey, Shedinja, do you want to be my Pokemon?" Chapter 8 - Birthday Notice (Not a chapter) Hey guys, Author here. Unfortunately, this is not a chapter because tomorrow is my birthday and I m so busy with the invites and party planning that I couldn''t post a chapter today (Yeah, I have a fun life). So, Apologies. But good for you guys, I will be publishing 2 Chapters tomorrow as a gift for my birthday (doesn''t make any sense to me too). Hope u vote me some power stones and good reviews (Cause apparently u need at least 10 reviews to get a rating for your novel) as a gift for my B''day. Yours only S.e.xyImagination Chapter 9 - Gringey City Road to Gringey city A pokemon was staring at the rising sun from the horizon. It was a beautiful sight to behold. The Pokemon was mostly light brown except for its abdomen, which was gray. It had 4 protrusions on its underside instead of legs; the top pair being brown while the lower being gray. The Pokemon was 0.5 meters tall. This Pokemon was Shedinja. It had been 3 days since the incident. After Axel proposed to be its trainer, Shedinja didn''t reply. It was weeping all the time for the loss of its trainer. It took a lot of time for Axel and Nidoran to calm the poor Pokemon. Axel didn''t go to Gringey city and thought to take some time for Shedinja. After a day, Axel tried to convince Shedinja that it deserved better, that Bruno was a very bad trainer and it could be a powerful Pokemon one day. Shedinja,¡­. didn''t take that well. It was offended that someone said bad about its trainer and refused to even talk to Axel. And here we are, after 2 days of thinking about its life decisions, as it was watching the rising Sun, Shedinja finally decided what it needs to do. Getting rejected by a trainer is like getting dumped by a girlfriend. It hurts a lot but, life still goes on. It remembered how Bruno treated Pidgey so well and discriminated against Shedinja. It saw how Axel treated Nidoran with utmost care. It felt how Axel treated its injuries and now it had finally decided. It flew to the camp where Axel and Nidoran were sleeping and tried to wake up Axel. "Hey Shedinja, Good morning. You wake up so early" saying Axel came out of the tent. He could see a determined look in Shedinja face. "So, have you finally decided?" Axel asked. "Shedd¡­ Shedinja" it shouted. "So, you want to be my Pokemon". Shedinja nodded its head. "Okay then" feeling excited Axel threw a Pokeball and Shedinja went inside it. After red dots blinking 3 times, it gave a sound and Shedinja was finally caught. Axel picked up the Pokeball and whispered "My second Pokemon..!!" and threw the Pokeball and out came Shedinja. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! You caught Shedinja. Its stats are listed Ding! Your leadership increased by 5 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª "Open status" ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Name :- Axel Blaze Race :- Demi human Alignment :- Neutral Profession :- Pokemon trainer (Rookie) Reputation :- 5 Health :- 120/120 Aura :- Locked Strength :- 10* Agility :- 24 Intellect :- 30 Leadership :- 15* Skills :- Active skills 1. Identify (Lvl 5) Passive skills None Pokemon :- Nidoran, Shedinja* Quest :- Main quest - 2 Sub quest - 0 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª He clicked on Shedinja and saw the following: ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon name :- Shedinja (Age- 1.5 years) Pokemon Nickname :- None Ability :- Wonder guard Health :- 20/30 (Hp cannot be increased in any way) Attack :- F Agility :- F Defense :- F Sp. Atk :- F Sp. Def :- F Moves :- 1. Hypnosis 2. Gust 3. Harden 5. Endure ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Well, he expected it to be bad. But he was surprised that it knew shadow sneak. It is a good move if used well. Shedinja ability ''Wonder guard'' was a very good ability. With this ability, Shedinja is immune to any attacks that are not super effective. That means only fire, flying, dark, ghost, and rock type moves could harm it. Of course, it was not full proof. Status moves like poison powder and confusion could affect Shedinja. Indirect damage like burn, weather, recoil could also hit Shedinja. "Nidoran, wake up!!.. We are going to the city today. Shedinja already agreed to joins us" Axel shouted to Nidoran. Nidoran had learned Focus energy when it was battling Pidgey 3 days ago."Nido¡­" it said softly and then closed its eyes and pretended to sleep. Axel was fed up with its antics. How lazy could a Pokemon be? What is it, a Snorlax? "Wake up fast, if not I will go and you have to eat in the wild" It opened its eyes very fast and stood up. There is one thing that Nidoran couldn''t give up. That was food made by Axel. After Axel followed the recipe for Nidoran and made the food, Nidoran was hooked on it. "Shedinja, come inside the Pokeball. You are not fully healed." Shedinja nodded and came inside the Pokeball. Gringey City It was a big city full of people and Pokemon. In the anime, Gringey city was described as a city over-expanded with factories and power plants resulting in the city being virtually abandoned as well as the sea was polluted. But that was not the case now as the anime story takes place in the future. There were a couple of factories but the environment was still very lively. Axel went up to the Pokemon center. Now it was not the first time he visited the Pokemon center. He had visited the Pokemon center in the past with his father twice but it still startled him. Cause it was a massive 3 storied building. The game never did justice to the sheer size of the building. The building had the iconic pokemon sign. The ground floor was for pokemon healing and for selling items like antidotes, potions etc. There was a separate building for Pokemart. Pokemon center too offered items but the items offered in Pokemon mart were of much variety. Normally items regarding healing nature were offered in the Pokemon center. The 1st floor of the Pokemon center was a canteen. Trainers came to the Pokemon center to eat and spend some time when their Pokemon were healing. And finally, the 2nd floor were rooms for trainers to stay the night. Rookie trainer enjoyed these services. Axel went to Nurse Joy who was standing in the podium. "Hello, my name is Clarie. I am the Nurse Joy of Gringey city. How may I help you?" she asked politely. In this world, Nurse Joy doesn''t look the same. They were all very different people born from different parents. Nurse Joy was a title given to them. As of habit, he identified Nurse Joy. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Name :- Clarie Weddelton Race :- Demi human Alignment :- Kanto region Profession :- Nurse Joy, Pokemon trainer (Advanced trainer), ??? Title :- Nurse Joy, ??? Reputation :- 30000 Health :- 400/400 Aura :- Locked Intellect :- 50 Leadership :- 650 Pokemon :- Blissey, ??? Pokedollars :- ??? ???¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Axel was shocked. This Nurse Joy was an Advanced Trainer. And what the hell is that reputation of 30000. Her stats are off the roof. She had 35 in strength. She could literally punch him to oblivion. And there were lots of ''???''. It seems Identity needed to level up quite a bit to know all of them. "Excuse me, sir, can you hear me?" Clarie asked again. "Ahh.. Yes. Could you look at my Pokemon? I just came from the forest and wanted to make sure if they are all ok." Axel said. "Of course sir, could you show me your Pokecard for verification?" Axel liked how she honored him by saying, sir. ''Finally someone with manners'' he thought. He gave his Pokecard and after some recordings and verification, Nurse Joy said " Oh, since you are a Rookie trainer, minor healing and checkups are free." She took the Pokeballs that Axel gave and said "why don''t you get some breakfast. This will take about 30 minutes" Axel nodded and left. He could see Clarie giving those Pokeballs to Blissey to checkup. He felt a bit unsecured handing his Pokemons to another person but didn''t think about it much. He went to the 1st floor and ordered some bread with Beedrill honey and some tea. He was just enjoying the view but heard something unusual from a group of people who looked like young Pokemon trainers. Chapter 10 - The Rookie Tournament A/N :- I have started reading a lot of Pokemon fanfics. And except for "Journey towards Greatness", I didn''t find any of the novel having a stable update. Almost all the novels except the above dropped after some chapters. So you, my readers don''t need to worry about it. This novel of mine will have a stable update and I will finish this novel. According to my plan, there is will be more than 700 chapters, when this novel ends. I know it is a big talk coming from a guy who only has 10 chapters till now. But don''t worry, there will be regular updates after some time as I have exams going on right now and it may take years to complete but I will complete it. So sit back and enjoy!!! ------------- "Which Pokemon will you be using?" "I will definitely go with my starter" "I hope I can win this competition. I heard that there is a surprise reward if you do." Axel went to these thrilled pokemon trainers and asked what was going on. "Hey, do you mind including me in your talk? Is there going to be some battle competition here?." After hearing Nurse Joy addresses him as ''sir'', his politeness leveled up a bit. "Oh, the Rookie tournament will be held tomorrow. We are thinking of participating in it. Are you also a Rookie trainer too?" asked the blond guy who was around 2 inches taller than Axel. Ahh.. The infamous ''Rookie tournament''. It was one of those tournaments which happened every 3 months in most of the big cities. The top three winners would get exciting prizes and money. The league decided that, since Rookie trainers don''t have a good amount of resources, there should be some way for them to earn. So, the winners get a good amount of money and items. The judges analyze the battle and if the trainers were good enough they would get a certificate. This certificate just approves you being promoted from ''Rookie trainer'' to ''Beginner trainer''. Every trainer must participate in the Rookie tournament and try unless they get the certificate. But more on that later. "Yes, I am. What are the prizes that you guys are talking about?. And hey I am Axel Blaze." Axel replied. "Hi, I am Lopez and this is Mariana. Well, you get 1 million Pokedollars and as for items, it has not been revealed. But they say, it is very good and is a surprise" Lopez said. 1 million Pokedollars may seem a lot but it actually was not for Pokemon trainers. Training a Pokemon to its final evolution may cost more than a Billion Pokedollars depending on how much you want to spend. "Hey, that seems pretty good. I think I will give it a try then. Thanks, Lopez." "Oh, don''t worry about it, it is our p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e. Besides, there are posters of it all over the place. But if you want to compete you must register in the next 2 hours." Replied Mariana surprisingly. Mariana was a girl with a relatively normal height of 5 feet and 6 inches. She had brown hair with 2 small ponytails on the back. She was wearing black pump shoes with no heels, blue baggy jeans, and a red t-shirt with some brown jacket on top. She looked the kind of girl who can''t wait to talk ¡­ a lot. Axel made a mental note to avoid this girl. "Thanks for the info Mariana. I will go now to register. I will meet you guys tomorrow at the stage" Saying that Axel went to register for the tournament. Registration was easy and the tournament starts at 11am tomorrow. The participant had to be ready 1 hour before the competition. He went to the Pokemon center to collect his Pokemon, then something interesting happened. "Both of your Pokemons are in good health now. But there is something wrong with Nidoran. We can''t figure out what it is though. Sorry about that." Nurse Joy replied apologetically. "What do you mean? Is he okay or really sick?" Axel asked hurriedly. "He is not sick. So, you don''t need to worry about it now. But there is something that is hindering his potential. It may affect him in the future when he evolves. I have contacted to Dr. Akihabara, and he would be happy to look further into this. He is in Matcha city which is in between Safari zone and Cinnabar Island" Nurse Joy replied. "Thank you Nurse Joy. Would you please give me his contact info. I will meet him after some time" Axel said. After taking his contact info, he went upstairs. He came near a phone booth to call his parents. Tring..!! Tring.. !! "Hello, who is this?" "Hey, Athena, it is me Axel. How are you doing?" Axel replied. "Mom, Axel is on the phone" she shouted running to her mother. A few moments later. "Axel, how are you? You said to call us in 10 days but you are calling in after a month. We were so worried...." His mother kept babbling about it. In this world, Pokenav had not been invented yet. And there was no network in the forest even if you want to contact. His initial plan was to cross the forest in 5-10 days but due to training, he took around 1 month to reach Gringey city. They had some small talk¡­ but the talk was very big. Axel''s dad was in the office, not at home, and he also talked to his uncle. After he talked to his parent, he went to the 2nd floor. He had booked the room for tonight and without any lunch, he slept in the bed. It had been a long time that he slept in the bed. When he hit the bed, he slept instantly. In the evening, 6 pm "Ahhh.. Hhhhai" Axel said stretching his hands and legs. He woke up at 6 pm in the evening. The sun was already going down. He woke his pokemon up went to take a shower. It had been a month that he had taken a satisfying shower. He also cleaned Nidoran and Shedinja. He went to the 1st Floor and ordered the same food. He had already made his homemade food for Nidoran. Shedinja doesn''t have to eat. Its body is hollow from the inside. It is a Bug/Ghost type Pokemon and lives up eating life energy in the surrounding or death energy. Axel was very low on cash right now. Registration took 1000 Pokedollars and the breakfast and the meal right now took 200 Pokedollars. So, he had only around 800 Pokedollars left which is extremely less as he also had to buy a bunch of potions and antidotes. Due to Nidoran''s ability ''poison point'', he started getting poisoned a lot and now he needed more antidotes. "Today we don''t need to do any training. We will stroll around the city." Axel declared to his Pokemons. Nidoran had a sigh of relief on its face. They were strolling in the city, there were a lot of good restaurants, factories, hotels, and many more. One thing Axel found interesting was about Pokemon Poachers. You can catch Pokemon in the wild and sell it to them and earn a lot of money. Some of the uncontrolled Pokemon who hurt Trainers a lot could be captured and sold to the league too. And Pokemon Poachers are completely legal. Since, 80% of the Pokemon world is covered with forest and Pokemon, catching Pokemon in the wild and selling them doesn''t seem to be bad. It had some rules to follow but they were pretty lax and they also had to dealings with the league. The next thing he found out was about earning money from battle. If you have a Pokemon battle with the trainers and both of them have more than 1000 Pokedollars in their pocket then the winners get some of the money. The money is decided before the battle but they get at least 1000 Pokedollars. "I can''t believe that I got ripped off by Bruno. When I meet him again and I know I will, there will a hell to pay" Axel murmured to himself. The little money wouldn''t have mattered to him if it was in a normal circ.u.mstance. But now he only had around 800 Pokedollars left. Another interesting thing was about ''League Association''. It was like a ''guild'' in various light novels. They had quests that you could complete and earn some money and benefits. The quest is not only related to Pokemon and trainers. There are quests like cleaning, servicing as a waiter in high peak hours, catching wild pokemons, thieves and burglars, and many more. He started making some plans of earning money. After some time they reached the Pokemon center and ate some food. Axel and the team went to sleep after eating. Chapter 11 - The Rookie Tournament 1 Room no. 235, 3rd floor, Pokemon Center It was 5 a.m. and our protagonist had already woken up and was washing his face. Both of his Pokemon also had their eyes opened. Today was the day of the tournament. Axel didn''t want to train Nidoran and Shedinja heavily. So, he came out of the Pokemon Center and told Nidoran to do some running with him. As Shedinja was just introduced to his team, he wanted Shedinja to take things lightly for some time. He was planning to use only Nidoran in this tournament. Shedinja was disappointed when it heard that but Axel convinced it by saying that it needs a bit of training first. Axel wanted Shedinja to learn the move ''Agility''. It increases user speed rapidly. Axel instructed Shedinja to relax and lightens its body and fly at top speed. Doing it was very hard though. Shedinja had to calm its mind first and then fly at its top speed maintaining control and dodging the obstacles. While Shedinja was doing its training and Nidoran was doing some normal dodging exercises to refresh its body, Axel was also trying to train his body. After seeing Nurse Joy stats, he felt that he was very weak. Axel also didn''t want to be the type of trainer who orders his pokemon to do training while just laying on the ground. So, Axel started doing some shadow boxing, that he had learned a bit in his previous world. After a few hours they did lunch and after resting a bit, they were ready for the battle. There were 30 participants for the Rookie tournament. There were 3 judges for the tournament. When Axel reached the tournament stadium, he saw a lot of energetic participants. Almost all the participants were around his age. He didn''t see Mariana or Lopez among the participants. The room was quite big and participants were scattered around. After he saw the list of participants, he found out that his first battle was with a girl name Luna. His battle was on 4th round. Stadium of Rookie Tournament. "Hello!! People of Gringey city. I am James Deen, your host of his exciting tournament. Today we have 3 judges here with us. The 1st one is of course our mayor of the city, Liam Smith. Our 2nd judge is Nurse Joy, Clarie Weddelton. And last but not the least, our last judge is Gym leader of Fuchsia city, Mr. Koga." The crowd erupted when they heard the name of Koga. The three judges appeared and then took their seats. "I would like to hand over to our mayor for the rules of this tournament. Give him a round of applause." Liam was an old man around 60 years old with white hair which seems to be falling with the passage of time. He was around 6 feet wearing a black suit with a dark blue tie and expensive watch. When he took over the mike, the crowd went silent for some time. Thinking that he had all the attention now, he said " Welcome my dear citizen of Gringey city and the Rookie trainers in this quarter of Rookie tournament. Every time we try to do something different to spice up the competition and this time is no different. We have Mr. Koga today as a special judge. There are 30 participants and this will be a Knockout tournament. From 30 participants, 15 will be selected. From 15, 8 will be selected. One random participant among the 15 will be automatically advanced to the next stage. From 8 to 4, then from 4 to 2 and finally the 1st. There are few rules for the tournament. 1. Since this is the Rookie tournament, participants can only fight with 1 Pokemon. 3. Until the Pokemon faints or the participant surrender, the battle will continue. The champion of this tournament will get 1 million Pokedollars. 2nd ranked participant will get 500k Pokedollars and 100k Pokedollars for the 3rd ranked. Another special reward is that the 3 winners can get a personal reward from one of us. The reward will be a mystery and the champion will get to choose first. Okay, without further ado let the battle begin!!" Axel was inside the room with his Pokemons discussing battle tactics. Shedinja still seemed a bit down. So, Axel said "Shedinja, try thinking of using shadow sneak and then assimilate with my shadow. This will enhance your dark type powers and increase your powers on shadow sneak." "Shedinjaa" it replied enthusiastically. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Sub quest has been generated through specific action. 1. Participate in the Rookie tournament and become the champion or 2nd or 3rd . Difficulty level :- FF Reward :-System update System update!. This seems exciting. Wonder what he would get? Shop function? Inventory function or some broken abilities? Axel''s turn for battle came after 10 minutes. The tournament was for Rookie trainers and they can only use 1 Pokemon. Since the Pokemon were weak they get tired very fast so the battle also finished very fast. "Now for the 4th battle Axel Blaze from Hakone city and Luna Kakabong from floral town. Please step on the stage." Axel and Luna stepped on the stage. The stage was very big, about half of the size of the football stadium. The stage was green with grass, and some mud and small rocks all over. There was a big Pokeball painting in the middle of the stage. Axel looked at his opponent to gauge her strength. The girl wore tight hot pants barely covering her t.h.i.g.h. She had fair skin and one of those tomboyish black hair. Her height was around 5''1 feet. But the look the girl gave made him surprised. He could sense a bit of killing intent from her. He wondered what she had gone through her life to look so fierce. "Take out your Pokemons" Said the referee. "Go Nidoran!" "Go Nidoran!!". Axel was surprised that she also had Nidoran. It was a female Nidoran and it looked healthy and powerful. "Are you both ready?" They both nodded. "Then begin!!!" Chapter 12 - The Rookie Tournament 2 A/N: My exams got postponed. so I will be publishing 1 chapter a day for 4 days continuously. I am making for the chapters that I delayed. Please send me some Power stones and good reviews, it helps a lot ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nidoran, start with tackle" Axel shouted. "Nidoran, double team" said Luna calmly. Seeing the opponent using ''double team'' and 2 F. Nidoran attacking, Axel immediately told Nidoran to use Focus energy. M. Nidoran closed its red eyes and started to focus. "Concentrate and then use chip away and combine it with tackle" Axel said. Chip away is a move that looks for an opening and strikes continuously. The 1st F.Nidoran came using its tackle while the 2nd F.Nidoran just behind the 1st, jumped high ready to use ''double kick''. Our Nidoran opened its eyes and dodged the 1st F.Nidoran and then the 2nd one too and used tackle to 2nd Nidoran. Unfortunately, 2nd Nidoran was an illusion and it faded away. Meanwhile, "Nidoran use bite" said Luna excitedly. F.Nidoran bite on Nidoran''s ear. Nidoran cried and tried to get it away but F.Nidoran had a good grip. At this point in time, Axel realized that Pokemon''s battle is totally different than fighting wild Pokemon. Burno seemed really weak than compared to Luna. "Nidoran, don''t panic. It is just a little setback. Now use venom drench." Axel said in a low m.a.t.u.r.e voice. Nidoran felt Axel''s intent and calmed down a bit. It was panicking before cause it had never lost a fight. And now, it seems that it might. Nidoran opened its mouth and sprayed poison all over F.Nidoran''s body. It didn''t have much of an effect on it cause it is also poison type pokemon. But it is not completely immune to poison. Venom drench hit its eyes and it got distracted. Nidoran at that moment freed itself from bite. Venom drench lowers Attack, Sp. Attack and agility. F.Nidoran was affected by it but not to the point that it would be monumental in this battle. Nidoran didn''t waste any time and use horn attack. F.Nidoran backed up half a meter from the collision and Axel instructed Nidoran to use Tackle at full speed. Level 7 tackle hit Nidoran and it impaled it to the ground. Nidoran backed off a bit to get ready for another attack. At this crucial time, "Nidoran focus, use bide" Luna said at a hurried pace. Now, Bide is an attack that endures the damage for 2 turns and then deals double the damage it received. If Nidoran attacked F.Nidoran and it survives to use Bide, then Axel would surely lose the match. So Axel used an intelligent move. "Nidoran, use rest". While F.Nidoran was shining with a red aura, Nidoran closed its red eyes and slept to recover its health. Now even if Bide connects, it will not affect Nidoran much, cause it never dealt with any damage to F.Nidoran. This move angered Luna a bit. What Axel didn''t know was, her Nidoran had a good defense. She thought to use ''Bide'' at last so that Axel would take the risk of using stab moves to eliminate F.Nidoran. But because of good defense, there was a high chance that F.Nidoran would survive and it would be her victory. But this move failed. "Huh!, coward. Why don''t you finish it if you are a man?" She shouted taunting Axel. Axel didn''t say anything and just smirked with a devilish smile. Finally, F.Nidoran charged its Bide and hit Nidoran. Axel shouted Nidoran to wake up, but as it has just learned it, it wasn''t proficient in it. The Bide hit Nidoran but it didn''t do much damage. Rest has healed Nidoran quite a bit and it woke up after it was struck. F.Nidoran was breathing heavily cause ''bide'' takes a lot of time to charge. Nidoran tried to use tackle again but F.Nidoran dodged it. It then used Chip away and used tackle continuously. F.Nidoran was not getting any hit on Nidoran. There were bruises and cuts all over F.Nidoran with bleeding all over its body. Everyone knew that it was going to lose and it did too. As a final strike, Luna said "Nidoran use double team and double kick." A red light flashed in its eyes. "Nido¡­ Nidoran!!" it said and used double team. This double team was very fast than the last one. Nidoran couldn''t perceive it. The 1st double kick form 1st F.Nidoran hit Nidoran right on its face and it flew back and stuck itself on the rock and the rock cracked on the impact. The force of that double kick was very high for a beginner Pokemon. The 2nd double kick from 2nd F.Nidoran hit on the same spot and the rock shattered. Nidoran flew for 5 meters and crashed on the ground with a big Thud!. The battle had completely turned. F.Nidoran ran to Nidoran and used bite on its same ear. Nidoran too used bite on F.Nidoran. Both were not willing to give up. But after a dozen to seconds, F.Nidoran closed its eyes and fainted. Everyone was shocked watching this battle. Axel should have won pretty easily, but Luna''s Nidoran turned the table in an instant. It still lost but everyone in the stadium had a hint of respect for the small quadruped Pokemon. The referee was also at daze for a few seconds. Realizing his mistake, he shouted, "Ah¡­ the winner is Axel blaze." The crowd erupted after the match. Nidoran was very hurt from the match. So, Axel hurriedly took Nidoran to checkup. The nurses were the stadium for any injured Pokemon. They brought 2 stretchers for both the Nidorans. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Horn attack has been leveled up to 2 Ding! Chip away has leveled up to 4 Ding! Rest has leveled up to 2 Ding! Nidoran has started to learn Bite (10%) Ding! 10 EVs on Attack for Nidoran ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª After waiting 30 minutes impatiently, Nurse joy gave Axel horrifying news. Nidoran was hurt very badly, so it could only make a full recovery tomorrow. The next round will be held in the evening. Nidoran will heal enough for the battle at the point but it was not advisable to let it battle in the tournament in the evening. Axel felt really bad that he couldn''t really win this tournament. He obviously will not use Nidoran in the evening. Chapter 13 - A Night with Shedinja A/N:- Sorry for the delay. My editor''s friend''s mother passed away few days ago due to corona virus. so the chapters got delayed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It was around 1 pm in the afternoon. Axel was in the cafe eating some food. Lopez and Mariana were consoling Axel. Both of them won easily in their match. Axel too won the match but his Pokemon was hurt to battle in the next round. "Don''t worry Axel. Your opponent was really tough. I saw the match myself. Even if you can''t battle the next round, I''m sure you will get the certificate." Mariana said, patting Axel''s back. Even If they were trying to make him feel better, he was feeling worse. Axel has a superiority complex. Seeing these 2 people consoling him that he can''t battle the next round made him furious. He, of course, didn''t show it in his face but he was hating them even more. Axel excused himself and went outside. He planned to train Shedinja. "Shedinja come out!" Axel said. Shedinja came out of Axel shadow gradually. Axel''s plan for Shedinja to hide in his shadow worked well. Though Shedinja was not good at it. Experienced trainers could look through Shedinja even if it was hiding in the shadow. But it will improve eventually. Shedinja was also not in a good mood. It saw Nidoran barely winning the match. Nidoran was many times more powerful than Shedinja. Seeing the battle, it felt that it could never win a single match in the future. Axel felt Shedinja''s emotions. When you catch a Pokemon and register it in the Pokemon center, you use a drop of blood to do it. Doing this has many advantages. One of which is, you can sense the feeling of Pokemon and the Pokemon could also feel your emotions. "Shedinja, those who cannot acknowledge themselves, will eventually fail" Axel said calmly. "You are weak and because of your species, you have very low health. Acknowledge your weakness, then only you can improve." "Shedinjaa" it said. Shedinja felt a jolt in its heart. Like it just realized something very important. "If you are weak then work harder. Give more time in practice than Nidoran, you will eventually catch up or maybe you will be more powerful than Nidoran." "Shed¡­" Shedinja had determination in its eyes when it heard its trainer. It was contemplating what its trainer said. ''Those who cannot acknowledge themselves will eventually fail'' was what its trainer said. Shedinja and Axel trained through the entire afternoon. It trained on agility and tackle. It also trained in ''harden''. Meanwhile, Axel was training in shadow boxing and after some time he started punching a tree. The rage he felt from before was fully unleashed on that tree. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª It was evening now. Axel after some training with his Shedinja, went to Pokemon center to checkup Nidoran. After being told that Nidoran still needs to be checked, he left to take Nidoran in the morning. He ate some food. Shedinja didn''t need any. So he went to the room and slept. He didn''t want to go to the stadium and watch the fight. 9p.m. at night Room no. 204, 2nd floor, Pokemon center It started to use harden to increase its defense. It also started to practice agility and tackle. Shedinja did this training regime for almost 30 minutes. It got tired after the training. There were some minor bruises as it had hurt itself in the process. It took rest for some time, then it noticed 3 Shandshrew on the bushes. Shedinja hid itself to observe them. One of the Shandshrew got away from the group. "Shed.." It decided this was the time for some battle training. Shedinja used shadow sneak and assimilated in the alone Shandshrew shadow. After it got far away, Shedinja came out of the shadow and tackled the opponent. Shandshrew was very surprised and it was thrown out quite a bit far. Shedinja immediately used gust on Shandshrew. As the poor Pokemon didn''t even knew who hit him, ''gust'' hit Shandshrew critically and it flew out of in the wind. After Shandshrew landed on the ground, it immediately got into position and used ''sand attack''. ''Sand attack'' hit Shedinja and lowered its accuracy, or so Shandshrew thought. But Shedinja is immune to ground type moves. Shandshrew used ''Rollout'' and hit Shedinja. But Shedinja ''wonder guard'' ability makes rock type moves immune too. Shandshrew didn''t know that and thought that Shedinja got hit. Shedinja then used ''hypnosis'' on Shandshrew. Since it was night, ''hypnosis'' affected it very well. Shandshrew started to doze off and Shedinja used ''shadow sneak'' and hid in the shadow of a tree. Seeing that Shedinja is nowhere it fall asleep. Axel had said that it had to acknowledge its weakness and think about it. It knew that it had low health and there was nothing it could do about it. So, it had to play smart. That is exactly what Shedinja was doing right now. It could now use a couple of gust and tackle and finish up the battle. But it thought there must be a safer way to win this. Shedinja went near to the sleeping Pokemon, It felt some kind of energy from the Pokemon and thought that it could manipulate it. It started to mess up Shandshrew''s dreams and make it feel that Shandshrew was seeing a nightmare. Whenever Shandshrew was those nightmares, Shedinja could feel that same energy going stronger. It started to absorb that energy and that energy made it stronger and recovered its health. Yes, Shedinja had learned ''Dream eater'' After it recovered its health to full, Shedinja decided that it was time to end the battle. It used gust a couple of times and then tackle a few more. After that Shandshrew had stopped breathing. It was dead in its sleep. Shedinja then again felt the same energy that it had felt before. It started to absorb the energy again. But that energy was too much for Shedinja to absorb. It was very violent than the previous one. It was making Shedinja powerful permanently but it couldn''t control it. It was ''Death Aura''. As Shedinja was a ghost Pokemon, Death Aura was beneficial for it. But this was the first time it had absorbed it, so instead of being good, it was harming Shedinja. Shedinja stopped absorbing the energy and tried to feel and assimilate the energy by doing meditation. It had seen Nidoran doing meditation and tried to copy it. After a few minutes, that violent energy started to calm down. It didn''t feel anything but it had grown a bit stronger than before. Shedinja after resting a bit decided to hunt the remaining Shandshrew. It used the same strategy that is used in the previous battle. However, it also tried to mix up trying to use agility in the fight. It didn''t absorb the death aura as it had before. Shedinja was concerned that it will not be good as it couldn''t control it. It thought that it would think about it after. For the rest of the night, it hunted down quite a bit of Pokemon. It first focused on Shandshrew but after some battles, there was a Sandslash among them guarding the Shandshrews. So, it decided to leave the Shandshrew for the time being. It also battled a group of Meowth and Caterpie. It used the same tactic on all of them. Shedinja wanted to play safe and master this battle tactic. Shedinja rested for some time and then decided to train its agility and tackle. At 4 a.m., after 7 hours of training, Shedinja returned to the room and slept. Chapter 14 - The Rookie Tournament 3 5 a.m., morning. Axel woke up. Slowly opening his eyes, he stretches his arms and legs. Stretching body in the morning is good for health, or so he had heard. It energizes your blood vessels. When he opened his eyes, he saw a hologram and there were a series of notifications. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Shedinja has learned Dream eater Ding! Shedinja has learned Tackle Ding! Dream eater has leveled up to 2 Ding! Hypnosis has leveled up to 2 Ding! Ghost core is starting to form (1%) Ding! Shedinja has started to learn Agility (15%) Ding! Harden leveled up to 2 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª "Huh!! What the hell happened" he said loudly. Shedinja also woke up hearing the noise. ''Did he trained at night? Without telling me?'' he thought. "Shedinja, did you trained at night?" Axel asked curiously. Shedinja shook its head saying no. Shedinja didn''t want to bother its trainer in this. It wanted to grow stronger and work harder by itself. Axel had already done enough for it, so it thought not to tell Axel about its night training. But Axel already knew this through the system. ''Wonder why it doesn''t want to tell me'' he thought. Axel assumed Shedinja will open up eventually. Axel took his shower and made Shedinja also to take shower. After getting ready, Axel thought to pickup Nidoran and start to go training. Just as he went to Nurse Joy to pick up Nidoran, he was surprised again. Nurse joy informed him that, the random person among the 15 participants, who automatically got selected for the next round was him. Oh my Arceus, that was some luck. The time for battle was the same as yesterday and he was against a trainer name Gabin. Mariana also made it to the next round but unfortunately, Lopez didn''t. Nurse Joy came with a Pokeball and then he went toward the edge of the forest to train. "Come out, Nidoran" Nidoran came out of the Pokeball and it looked healthy and full of life. It jumped and embraced Axel. Guess it missed its trainer very much. A Pokemon becomes Beginner Pokemon from Baby Pokemon after 1-2 months. Nidoran had just become a Beginner Pokemon but it was still childish in nature. After a short reunion, Nidoran was a bit depressed. This was the first time, that it had nearly lost the fight. That F.Nidoran seemed much more powerful than Nidoran. "We just need to train even harder, don''t worry. If we train more than you will be the most powerful Nidoran there is" Axel motivated Nidoran. "Luckily we got selected for another battle, So Nidoran!, now for this short time you will focus on training ''focus energy'' and ''rest''." Axel found out that, moves like Focus energy and rest could make a huge difference in battle. "Shedinja, you will continue learning agility, tackle and harden." "Shedinjaa" it said with enthusiasm. Axel did some meditation. Seeing that he had some bruises on his hands, meditation felt the right thing to do. After training for 5 hours, they returned to the Pokemon center and ate some food. Gabin''s Pokemon was Rattata. It was not a powerful Pokemon but its speed was good and its ''crunch'' was deadly. Thank Arceus, it had not learned ''Super fang'' or ''Hyper fang'' that could turn the table. Axel battle was on the 2nd, so this time Axel started planning battle tactics with Nidoran. Finally, his turn came. Axel went up to the stage. Even though he was only in the stadium once yesterday, he had a nostalgic feeling. Gabin too came to the stage. Gabin was a fat guy, wearing a plain blue shirt and a hoodie. He had long hair up to his shoulders and was wearing brown khaki trousers. A hit of mustache could be seen on his face. He sent out his Rattata and Axel sent out Nidoran. "Rattattaa.. " It shouted. It looked excited about battle. Winning 2 matches in a row might have got in its head. ''It will feel very wrong after some time'' Axel said clenching his teeth. "Are you both ready?" "Yes" Gabin said. Axel also nodded. "Okay, let the battle begin!!" The referee shouted through his lungs. "Rattata, start with a quick attack" Gabin said hurriedly, like he wanted to finish the fight fast and eat some burgers, seeing how fat he was, thought Axel. Nidoran used Focus energy as it closed its eyes. When Rattata came near it, Nidoran dodged the attack effortlessly. "Continue with quick attack until it hits" Said Gabin. Nidoran just closed its eyes and started dodging. Every Dodge was perfect. It''s training on dodging the stones were proving well. After some dodges, Gabin was getting frustrated. As Axel and Nidoran had already planned the fight, he knew that Gabin will start with ''quick attack''. He had done the same in the last 2 matches. So, without any instruction, Nidoran was doing its thing, as it was already planned. After some time, Rattata was starting to get tired. Gabin instructed it to use ''headbutt''. Axel, who closed his eyes too, suddenly opened it and said, "Now Nidoran". Nidoran used Chip away plus tackle, or ''Chip tackle''. It was the name that they came up with for this combo. Nidoran, dodged ''headbutt'' perfectly. As it was ''headbutt'' not ''quick attack'', the speed was very low. So, Nidoran used level 7 tackle on Rattata and it connected. Tackle had started to become very powerful now. Rattata was flung couple of meters by the attack. "Nidoran, now use horn attack" Axel said. Rattata tried to dodge it, but it still connected well. Nidoran then used ''bite'' on Rattata''s neck. It wailed loudly. The bite must have hurt it. Rattata also tried to bite it, but as Nidoran was bitting its neck, it was not successful to do so. Nidoran picked up Rattata with the sheer amount of bite and threw it for some distance. Nidoran started going for another tackle, but Rattata dodged it. "Rattata, now!!" Gabin shouted. Rattata then bit Nidoran with its sharp teeth. Rattata''s bite was very dangerous. Nidoran flinched for some time and couldn''t do anything. Axel wasn''t panicking like the last match today. He promptly said "Nidoran use Venom drench like before". Red eyes flashed and then Nidoran used Venom drench. As Rattata was near Nidoran bitting its a.s.s off, Venom drench was hit on point-blank. Rattata got distracted and Nidoran was able to come out of its bite. Rattata''s Agility, Attack, and Sp. Attack got reduced and it also became poisoned due to Nidoran''s ability. As Rattata was hurt due to poison, Nidoran used ''Venom drench'' 3 more times. Now Rattata''s special speed which it was proud of was reduced drastically. There was a layer of purple poison all over Rattata''s body. It was twitching because of poison. "Rattata No!!!!" Gabin said loudly. "Nidoran now finish it with tackle, full force." Axel said confidently. Nidoran ran and stuck Rattata with tackle on its injured neck. Rattata was flown 6 meters in the air and then, it was slammed into the ground. It had fainted. "The winner is Axel Blaze" Referee shouted. And there were cheers from the crowd. Nidoran was not hurt like it was before. Although bite took some of its health, it could now fight in the evening. This concluded the 3rd round for Axel . Chapter 15 - The Rookie Tournament Finals After the battle finished, Axel got the following notification, ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Nidoran has started to learn Quick attack (20%) Ding! Nidoran''s Bite has progressed to (20%) Ding! Nidoran''s has gained 5 EVs on agility Ding! Nidoran''s attack increased to E++ ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Axel and Nidoran got off the stage, with Shedinja in his shadow. He went to Nurse joy to get Nidoran checked up. The nurse said that it would take about an hour for Nidoran to heal completely. Axel just went to the 1st Floor of the Pokemon center to get some coffee. He didn''t bother to see other''s battles. He could just see the battle video in the cafe. He thought to give himself some well-deserved rest after the battle. Though Nidoran was the one who fought, the pressure to win for Axel was high. Axel started seeing local news on the cafe''s computer. He found out that, day after tomorrow was the day when the Auction would open. ''If I win this tournament, I will have enough money to participate in the auction'' he thought. He planned to buy some of the food ingredients for Nidoran to make some nutritious food. The ingredients he found in the wild were all substitutes that were mentioned in the recipe. Its effect was lower than the ingredients found in the Pokemart. He planned to buy that first and would buy something from the auction, with the money left, if he got lucky. Very soon it was around 5 pm. As he was doing research, he dozed off at the coffee table in the cafe. He slept for 4 straight hours!!. The next round started at 6 pm. He went to look at his opponent and found out that it was Mariana. This would be a troublesome opponent for Nidoran. Mariana''s Pokemon was Shandshrew. It was a ground type Pokemon and Nidoran is weak against ground type. That Shandshrew also knew ground type moves making the coming battle very difficult. Axel went to the Pokemon center to collect Nidoran and started planning for this battle. His battle was the first one. There were only 4 participants left now. After he wins this, he would qualify for the final round. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª "Ladies and gentlemen, we are now in the Semifinals. The first battle will be Axel Blaze taking on Mariana Stougt. Will Axel''s Nidoran prevail against Mariana''s Shandshrew? We will have to see. But no matter the result, we all know that it will be an exciting battle. Any comments from the Judges?" the host asked. "It will be very difficult for Axel to win this battle. Shandshrew is ground type Pokemon which is strong against Nidoran, which is a poison type. It also knows ground type moves like dig and sand attack. Axel has to be careful in this battle. What do you say Mr. Koga? You are a poison type gym leader. Any insight on this battle before we begin?" the mayor said. "This is a Rookie battle and the Pokemons are all Beginner Pokemons. When Pokemons are in the Beginner stage, it is hard for them to resist the attacks which they are weak to. Axel''s Nidoran is a young Pokemon. As per my expertise, it must be around 3-4 months old. So, it will a difficult battle for Axel" Mr. Koga said thinking for some time. "So the odds are high against Axel. But we will have to see. Let''s welcome the contestant in the battle stage." The host concluded. Huge cheers were coming from the spectators. The semi-finals were here. The 2 contestants went up to the stage. Shedinja was still in Axel shadow. Mr. Koga was watching Axel intently. "Go Nidoran!!" "Go Sandslash" . The two participants send out their Pokemons. "Huh?" Axel said. Instead of fighting Sandshrew, it was Sandslash. It had evolved. Oh my Arceus. Axel was surprised. For the 3rd time in a day, Axel got something he had not expected. 1st the notification of Shedinja training. Then knowing that he was selected to participate and now this. The battle got from hard to near freaking impossible. When the judges were favoring Mariana, they were being modest. When the Pokemons are in their Beginner stage, it was very rare to defeat those Pokemon that they are weak against. And now, Sandshrew had evolved making Nidoran''s fight even harder. Sandslash was now a ''Uncommon Pokemon'' it had ranked up from ''Beginner Pokemon'' to ''Uncommon'' as it was in its final evolution."You didn''t expect that did you Axel? I will surely win this fight" exclaimed Mariana. "Sandslash use buldoge." It stomped on the ground making the ground shake. This made Nidoran''s speed reduce slightly. ''Buldoge'' was basically a miniature version of earthquake. It did little damage but reduce the speed stat. "Nidoran ''Focus energy''". Nidoran closed its eyes and started to Focus. "Sandslash, ram it down with rollout". Sandslash started rolling at a high speed. "Nidoran!! Now!" Axel shouted. Nidoran used ''Chip tackle''. Dodging the ''Rollout'' it used tackle. But unfortunately, Sandslash dodged it, but Nidoran used poison sting on Sandslash when tackle didn''t connect. Fortunately, Sandslash got poisoned. "Yes!" Axel murmured. He wanted Sandslash to get poisoned at the start of the battle so that it would be easy for him. It was going to be a long fight. That is what they planned to fight Sandshrew before. "Sandslash use sand tomb now" "Sand¡­ slash" it said. A huge raging stand storm engulfed Nidoran. "Nidoran, try to get out quickly"Axel shouted worriedly. Nidoran got out after some time but it was badly hurt. It had cuts and bruises all over its body. Red marks of blood could be seen on it body. Everyone thought that Nidoran would be out of the battle after another critical hit. Sand tomb is a ground type move which is super effective against Nidoran. "Sandslash now finish up with dig" Mariana gave her final order thinking that it will be the end. "Nidoran use Focus energy and rest" Axel said. This is the new combo that they had been working in the forest. Nidoran would rest but not completely that it would be distracted in a fight. It would also use focus energy to observe its surrounding. ''Rest'' cause it to sleep and recover while ''Focus energy'' leads it to focus. It was an extremely difficult combo. Nidoran had not mastered it. Sandslash jumped and dug the hole and went underground. Nidoran closed its eyes. After some time Sandslash came out from the ground just right side of Nidoran. Nidoran tried to dodge it but it was hit. But Nidoran didn''t give up. It continued to close its eyes. Sandslash immediately went inside the hole again and came out to attack its opponent. This time Nidoran dodged it successfully. Sandslash again used dig and this time it was a critical hit. Sandslash''s spike on its back struck Nidoran''s stomach. Nidoran jumped from the impact and crashed on the ground.. "Nidoooo¡­" "Nidoran! No.. Are you ok?" Axel asked worriedly. Everyone thought that this was the end. Even Referee was going up in the stage. But Nidoran didn''t give up. "Nido¡­ Nidorann" it roared top of its lungs. Mariana was surprised. She didn''t think that Nidoran would still be standing up. "Sandslash use dig again" she said. Sandslash tried to jump but it fell down. The poison inside its body had taken effect. Due to using dig and speeding underground, the poison had already affected the majority parts of its body. Mariana realizing this, instructed Sandslash to use ''Fury swipes''. Axel told Nidoran to dodge and use tackle. It did and used tackle but it didn''t affect Sandslash much. Sandslash defense is very high at base 110. Due to all the pressure, Axel completely forgot about it. Then something extraordinary occurred. Nidoran then did the most amazing thing. It roared and a purple liquid came out of its mouth. This was not ''Venom drench''. This was a concentrated and compact purple liquid that flew and struck Sandslash in the face when it was going to use ''Fury swipes''. It had a very bad smell and it was purple. It was a ''Sludge Bomb''. Sludge Bomb connected Sandslash right in its face and a mini-explosion came out of it. Sandslash was heavily affected by it and was thrown out multiple meters back. Dust flew out of the ground. When the dust cleared, Sandslash had already fainted. They are miraculously won the fight. After seeing that it had won the fight, Nidoran also closed its eyes and fainted. Everyone was out of their seats. The crowd was out of their seats, the judges were standing with their jaws dropped. Nidoran and Axel had done next to an impossible task. They had won the fight. The respect in the eyes of the crowd and the judges could be clearly seen. Even though fighting at a disadvantage, even though fighting a Pokemon who was fully evolved and ranked ahead of itself, Nidoran took this sweet victory. There was a complete silence for a few seconds in the stadium. No one spoke, not even the host. Then it started. It started with a roaring crowd with chanting Nidoran''s name. "Nidoran.. Nidoran¡­ Nidoran" the crowd was chanting without any stop. "Papa, now I also want a Nidoran" a childish voice said from the crowd. "That Nidoran is Powerful. This trainer has a very bright future. Maybe he can one day become a Champion" "I wish to see Nidoran fight in the finals. But I guess it is very injured to do so" 4 Nurses came running with 2 stretchers and they immediately took both of the Pokemons to the hospital. Nidoran had me hurt very badly, especially in the stomach area with Sandslash spikes. "It is a well-deserved victory for you. I don''t feel bad about it. Hope you will win the finals too. Goodbye Axel blaze" said Mariana and then left the stage. "Hmm.. This Nidoran is interesting. Is he the one?" said Mr. Koga in a small tone. Axel was hurriedly walking in the Pokemon center waiting for Nurse joy to say something. In the stadium. "Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a sad news for you. Unfortunately, Nidoran couldn''t battle tomorrow for the finals as it is very injured. So this upcoming match will be the finals. Let the battle begin" said the host. Nidoran was injured heavily, and it would take 3-4 days for it to be healed perfectly. Axel already had no hope to fight in the finals but he was worried about Nidoran. Thank Arceus that he didn''t have any lasting injury. The finals concluded and a participant name Gina won the Rookie tournament. Axel had already said that he would want the prize from Mr. Koga as he is poison type gym master. He said that he will take the prize tomorrow. Mr. Koga didn''t have any problems with it. 500k Pokedollars had been credited in his Pokecard. He just went to the 2nd floor of the Pokemon center and tried to sleep. This was the day when the people of Gringey city remembered Nidoran''s name. Chapter 16 - The Main Plot Starts ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Nidoran has learned Sludge Bomb Ding! Nidoran''s Sp.Att has increased to F++ Ding! Focus energy of Nidoran has leveled up to 2 Ding! Nidoran''s health have increased by 10 Ding! You have scored 2nd in the Rookie tournament. System will update now. It will take 10 hours for the update. You can''t use any system function for the time being ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Sleeping was hard for Axel right now. Though Nurse Joy assured that Nidoran would be perfectly okay, Axel was still worried. Axel had taken care of Nidoran like his baby. He had to tutor everything Nidoran has accomplished till now. So, naturally, he was worried. After an hour of rolling in the bed, he finally dozed off. At 10 p.m. Shedinja woke up from its sleep. This was now training time for Shedinja. It went to the forest and tried to practice agility and battled with some Pokemons. After 2 nights of doing this routine, it could feel that it was getting stronger. ''Axel was right about hard work. But I seem to think a lot when I battle. Maybe I am a tactician'' it thought. ''Thinking is also a hard work'' "''Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it''", it praised itself. Being motivated it started to work hard. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª "So I came 2nd in the rookie tournament. Nidoran was injured so we couldn''t fight in the finals. I also got the certificate for being a ''Beginner trainer''" "Oh that is good news. Don''t worry Nidoran will be okay. You don''t need to be that tense. What is your plan for now? Will you be coming home for some time? You have been gone for a month." It was around 10 a.m. around the morning. After doing the routine exercise with Shedinja, Axel was in a video call with his father. He was reciting his story of the Rookie tournament. His mother wanted him to call every day, but that simply not possible right now. "Oh! Your sister is here. She wants to talk to you" his father said and his cute little sister came into view. "Bro, how are you? Did you catch any new Pokemon ''Banana'' ?" "huh!¡­ yes I caught Shedinja. It is a very hard working Pokemon. So, how is school?" Axel asked. "School is boring. I want to have my 1st Pokemon already ''Pineapple''" she said. "Athena, why are you saying banana and Pineapple?" "Oh mom is here" she said and then ran. "Mom, why is she saying banana and pineapple?" "Oh, she has a speaking contest going on in her school. So she is practicing difficult words." ''Since when did ''banana'' became difficult to speak? She is starting her weird habits again.'' Axel thought. "So, how are you? Why are you not calling me regularly...." The conversation went on for about half and hour Meanwhile Axel go the notification of system update. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! System got updated. New system feature :- Host can determine the potential of the Pokemons now. They are determined by various colors. They are listed bellow: 1. White (low) 2. Blue (low) 3. Green (Normal) 4. Orange (Normal) 5. Red (Advanced) 6. Purple (Advanced) 7. Brown (Monstrous) 9. Void (Divine) Note:- White being the lowest Potential and Void being the highest one. Note :- Potential of Pokemon being low, normal, advanced and Monstrous were mentioned in chapter 2. The system just diversified it even more. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Axel then checked on his own status. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Name :- Axel Blaze Race :- Demi human Profession :- Pokemon trainer (Beginner) Title :- None Reputation :- 5 Health :- 120/120 Aura :- Locked Strength :- 12* Agility :- 24 Intellect :- 30 Leadership :- 15 Skills :- Active skills 1. Identify (Lvl 6)* Passive skills Pokemon :- Nidoran, Shedinja* Pokedollars :- 500200 Quest :- Main quest - 2 Sub quest - 0 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Axel then checked on Nidoran stats ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon name :- Nidoran (Age- 4 months) Ability :- poison point Hidden ability :- Sheer force (Locked) Potential :- Purple Health :- 140/140 Attack :- E++ IVs :- 0 EVs :- 10 Agility :- D+ IVs :- 0 EVs :- 7 Defense :- D+ IVs :- 0 EVs :- 0 Sp. Atk :- F++ IVs :- 0 EVs :- 0 Sp. Def :- F IVs :- 0 EVs :- 0 2. Sucker punch (Egg move) 3. Venom drench (Egg move) 4. Tackle (Lvl 7) 5. Poison sting (Lvl 2) 6. Peck (Lvl 3) 7. Focus energy(Lvl 2)* 8. Horn Attack (Lvl 2) 9. Rest (Lvl2)* 10. Bite (20%)* 11. Quick Attack (20%)* 12. Sludge Bomb* Cores :- 1. Poison (5%) ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Axel then went to the Pokemon center to check on Nidoran. Nurse Joy said that Nidoran still cannot be disturbed and needed much rest as possible. But he could visit Nidoran tomorrow. Nurse Joy also gave an interesting news to Axel. Mr. Koga will be waiting for Axel on ''Brew''d Awakening'' at 11 a.m. to give him his prize. ''Brew''d Awakening'' was a famous restaurant franchise in the Kanto region. It had branches all over the major cities of kanto. There are some branches of it in Johto and Alola region too. So, it is a famous multi-regional company. The food in Brew''d Awakening is of very high quality and nutritious. It is one of the few restaurant franchises that sells food especially for Pokemons too. Of course, the prices on their menu are exceedingly high. It was a 20 minutes walking distance from the Pokemon Center. So, Axel went to his room and bathe and changed his outfit to get ready. He was a bit nervous to meet Mr. Koga as he was a reputed gym leader. After getting ready, he started walking to Brew''d Awakening. Brew''d Awakening was a massive 5 storied restaurant. It had a huge garden on the side, valet parking, and a huge gate at the front with armed guards on each side. Before entering the building, the guards asked for his identity. After he told his name and proved it with his Pokecard, the guards let him in. Apparently, you need to reserve a table before you came to this restaurant. Mr. Koga had already reserved a table for them. The ambiance inside the building was magnificent. Axel was led by a waiter to the 3rd where the table was. He came 10 minutes before the scheduled time. He just didn''t want to be late. After around 10 minutes Mr. Koga came. Mr. Koga had dark blue spiky hair. He was wearing a long red scarf on his neck that was hovering on his back like a superman. He was wearing a well made dark blue suit with half-gloves on each of his hand. He was around 6 feet tall and looked imposing. When Axel saw Mr. Koga, his heart was beating fast. Meeting a reputed gym leader was a big deal for him or any new trainers. Gym leaders, Elite 4, and Champions were the most reputed profession in the Pokemon world. His face didn''t look much different compared to anime. "Hello Axel Blaze, I am Koga Tanaka. As you may know I am the gym leader of Fuchsia city." Mr. Koga said smiling and raising his hand for a handshake. "Hello, Mr. Koga, it is an honor to meet you" Axel said accepting the handshake. After they both sat on the chair Axel asked, "If you don''t mind me asking Mr. Koga, why did you want to meet me in person. You could have given me the prize through Nurse Joy as I didn''t attend the prize accepting ceremony." Axel asked curiously. Gym leader was a highly reputable position and Mr. Koga must have been very busy. It surprised him a little that Mr. Koga would wait for him to have this meeting in private. "Haha, you don''t need to feel reserved Axel. I found your battle very interesting. Your Nidoran seems to be properly trained which is rare among the Rookie trainers. I just want to meet a promising talent." Mr. Koga replied. Axel then felt a bit relaxed. "I researched you a bit and found out that you are an Assistant Professor. It is rare for a 13 yr old to be an Assistant Professor in such a young age" Mr . Koga said. They then started talking about a lot of things. Axel told his research of Mega evolution and Eevee evolutions. Mr. Koga seemed very interested in the topic. "What do you want to eat? This restaurant is very famous for its food. Don''t worry it will be my treat this time." Mr Koga said looking at the menu. Mr. Koga ordered a Dragonite meat steak and a miltank milk shake. Axel also ordered the same since he didn''t know which was good. This is one of the reasons that Brew''d Awakening was very famous. Very few restaurants could afford meat of Pokemon like Dragonite. It is not only about the money. Famous Pokemon''s meat like Dragonite is hard to obtain. You can''t just pay to hunt Dragonite. Firstly, it is very hard to hunt s Pseudo- legendary Pokemon like Dragonite. And you have to go through a bunch of legal procedures to do so cause Dragonite is a very rare Pokemon. League wouldn''t just let people hunt rare Pokemons like Dragonite and Alakazam. Even if Brew''d Awakening could serve food of almost all the Pokemon they couldn''t serve meat of Charmander, Squirtle and Bulbasaur line. It is cause they are the starter Pokemon of Kanto region. Killing a starter Pokemon is extremely illegal. They are considered as national animals of the region. After talking for around 20 minutes and Axel realizing that the food could taste so good, Mr. Koga finally popped the question. "Axel I have a proposal for you. Do you want to be a member of LAT?" Chapter 17 - The Plot Thickens Axel had confusion written all over his face. Hearing the intensity of Mr. Koga''s voice he thought that it must be something serious, but he didn''t know what LAT really meant. Understanding that Axel was confused, Mr. Koga explained "The full form of LAT is ''League Associate Trainer''. Every gym leaders and Elite 4 members get to nominate a trainer that they think have the potential to be the Pokemon Master. And I want to nominate you. Of course, this is an internal group and not revealed in the public. Other trainers could also fight in the league tournament and become the Pokemon master. But the league tends to groom a certain number of trainers to get a competitive advantage. This is mainly a political need. This generation''s Pokemon master is from the Kanto region which is Samuel Oak. So, the Kanto region has a high ground in making all the decisions of the world. But now, Oak is getting old and we need a new champion to uphold the tradition." It took Axel almost 10 seconds to digest the news and after thinking about it he asked a question. "Okay, I have some questions that I would like to ask first". Mr. Koga was impressed that Axel gave it a thought rather than taking this chance immediately. "Alright, go ahead" he said. "First of all, you just met me, and granted that you saw my battle but why do you want to nominate me this fast? Don''t you want to give some thought about it." Mr. Koga smiled and then replied, "I have a very good intuition Axel. Did you know that my native land is a small village in Johto region? But I came to kanto region cause I thought that at my time Kanto region will flourish and this was before Prof. Oak became the Pokemon master. Due to this, I became a gym leader in Kanto region and also an Elite 4 member in Johto region. Because of me, we now partially control Johto region cause I am an elite 4 member of it. I had the same intuition when I saw you battle, and when I talked to you now. I feel that you are going to do something big in the future. I just want to invest in you cause of this reason." Axel then asked again "Do I get some benefits by being a member of LAT? And are there any risk on this?" "There are a lot of benefits of being a member of LAT. First, as a participant, you will get 10 million Pokedollars. You will also get a Pokemon that we will provide you. The Pokemon will be a native Pokemon of the Kanto region. Of course, being a member you will have to uphold the honor of it and there will be a lot of responsibilities on your plate. There may be some risk and I am only saying this cause no one could predict the future but it wouldn''t be much. If your contribution is high and you have performed well the league will protect you completely. No harm will come to your family so you can be assured of that." Mr. Koga replied patiently. "It is a good deal for you. If you have high ambitions and dreams then this is the right way" Mr. Koga added. Axel gave it some thought and agreed almost immediately after Mr. Koga replied. There is not much loss on his part. He will get the resources and the funding initially and if he did good, he would get additional benefits. It was always his dream to be the Pokemon Master. Mr. Koga then said "Alright then, I will get the paperwork for you tomorrow. There are some rules that you have to follow. Like, since you are nominated by me, I have a condition that there should be at least 2 poison type Pokemons in your main team. You already have Nidoran so think of another. Being a member of LAT, not only you will have to pursue to be the Pokemon master, but you also should have a side profession. But since you already are an assistant professor you could continue that. And lastly, I would advise you to be selected by professor Oak too. He is the Pokemon master. Also, he had selected Red and Blue in previous times and they both are former Kanto Champion now. So you being selected by professor Oak will maximize your chances." "If you don''t mind me asking, why is everyone focused on the Pokemon master? This whole thing is to be Pokemon master and I understand it is a great thing to be but why does the Pokemon master control the governance of the whole world?" Axel asked curiously. He found this unsettling. He had been watching news and videos and one thing that he noticed is that a decision made by professor Oak had never been questioned. Whether it is good or bad. It had always been the final decision. Mr. Koga then said "Have you noticed that gym leaders, elite 4, a champion and the Pokemon master are the most reputed profession in the world? There are other popular profession like Pokemon breeder, Pokemon professor, Pokemon connoisseur etc but they are not the most popular and reputed profession. Did you ever think that, though 80% of the Pokemon world is covered with forest and Pokemons, and 20% is human settlement, humans have been living in harmony without being their existence erased." Axel nodded thinking about it. He had heard this from professor Bourne that there had been wars among wild Pokemon and humans in the past and this still continues. Trainers in the borders still protect the settlement from wild Pokemon. It is called ''Pokemon conflict''. In the borders, there has been cases of Pokemon mascaraing a whole city with no one alive and brutally killing and eating humans. This, of course, had not been revealed in the public because the league didn''t want there to be any enmity between humans and trained Pokemon. "It is because the Pokemon master gets the chance to meet Arceus. And the Pokemon master is considered as God among humans like Arceus is among Pokemons and they will have an equal standing." Mr. Koga said. Axel was shocked when he heard this from Mr. Koga. He didn''t know that being the Pokemon Master would mean that much. Mr. Koga then continued, "It had been said in the history that, there was an egg and it hatched after some time. Arceus came of it and created the Pokemon universe with its 1000 hands. But, what is questionable is that Arceus only has the power to create Pokemon. It doesn''t have the power to create humans. So, it is believed that Arceus was not the only one who created the universe. A human helped in that too. That human was the first Pokemon master. This is of course a speculation cause this has not been mentioned in history. Only the Pokemon master and a Pokemon champion knew about the truth. This truth has been kept a secret since the beginning of humanity. No one knows why this is the secret though. We don''t know if this theory is real. We even don''t know how a normal human could be compared to a god-like Arceus. Only the Pokemon master and Pokemon Champion knows about it." Mr. Koga paused for some time and let the news sink into Axel. He then continued again "In public, it has only been revealed that there are 2 Pokemon masters up till now. The recent one is professor Oak. But we speculate that there must have been at least 2 other Pokemon masters before. Major parts of history have been missing so we can??t be sure. This is the reason why Pokemon master is considered highly." Axel was in a deep thought after this. He thought that if he could be the Pokemon master and then meet Arceus then he could find out why he was reincarnated in this world. He could also find out about this system. Mr. Koga then said again "Those discussions are for another time. Now the prize of the Rookie tournament for you is a 100 yr old poison barb. Poison barb helps in increasing Nidoran''s poison power. Don''t think it to be a normal item. Nidoran could not take this poison barb as it is right now. Make it a lot stronger before giving it this item, maybe even evolve it, so it would be easier for Nidoran. Giving this item now may kill the poor guy. My Nidorino had been given 1000 yr old poison barb and it is one of the most powerful poison Pokemon till now. Next would be the Pokemon that I should give it to you. I actually have a fully evolved Golem with me. As per the rules I am only allowed to give you a non evolved Pokemon but seeing your battle I want to give you Golem. This Golem is a very young and curious Pokemon. It evolved very fast and it has a monstrous potential. It always wanted to travel and have and go on an exciting adventure but I am a gym leader and this couldn''t happen. So I am thinking of giving it to you. What do you think about it?" "I don''t want to accept it. Golem is a very powerful Pokemon and I am just a Beginner trainer. It would be hard to control Golem. I don''t think I could do this at my level and plus it was your Pokemon before. I will not have the same connection that I have with my Nidoran." Axel said. He was really happy that Mr. Koga wanted to give him a powerful Golem but he just knew that it would not fit in the team. So, he declined it. "Okay then, I will give a young Pokemon with good potential." Mr Koga said. "I have some good connections with people here and there. I think we could get good Pokemon for you. But you will have to wait for 2 days to get that Pokemon. Your poison barb and the money will be delivered to you at the same time in the Pokemon center. I think we should part now. Anything I could help you please tell me." Mr. Koga said Axel thought for some time and replied "Actually it would be really good if I could get a Miltank. I think its milk would be helpful in the long run. Is there any way I could get a Miltank?" "Miltank would be hard to get but I think Gogoat is being auctioned tomorrow. I could get the person in charge to not auction it and sell you directly at a lower price" said Mr. Koga putting a hand on his chin. "That would be excellent Mr. Koga" said Axel. After exchanging pleasantries they exited the restaurant. ---------------------------- A/N:- I have decided to publish 1 bonus chapter with every 300 power stones i would get. so keep them coming young trainers!! ---------------------------- After some calculation, I found out that Gym battles will take some time. I don''t want Gym battles to be pretty weak like fighting Brock with only level 12 Pokemon. So I am thinking to add some exciting adventures in the middle. I have already thought something about it. but I would appreciate some of your ideas too. Any exciting adventure that you guys want in this novel? leave in the comment below. Chapter 18 - First Quest A/n : Pokemon traders have been changed from Pokemon Poachers. Pokemon Poachers was mentioned in chapter 10. Poachers just didn''t sound like a socially accepted name for me. ------------------------------------------------ At the gate of Brew''d Awakening "I have a lot of expectation from you Axel. I would hope that you don''t disappoint me" Mr. Koga said. Axel just nodded and parted ways with him. He didn''t know why but, he felt free after such a long time. It may be because the Rookie tournament just ended or maybe due to the funding and the resources he would get then or maybe cause he would get a new Pokemon. He took a deep breath. Fresh air assaulted his lungs. He could feel his body getting energized. He was thinking about what he should do today. Tomorrow, he would get the paperwork, poison barb, the funding, Gogoat, and would visit the Auction but he didn''t have any plan for today. He first planned to finally train Shedinja seriously but he gave up that thought. He planned to train Shedinja after the Auction. He decided to visit ''League Association'' today and do some quest and earn some money. Though he had money now, he knew that it would not be enough after some time. He went inside the hall of League Association after walking for an hour. Gringey city was huge. It was bigger than most of the cities in his previous world. He entered to the League Association and first decided to get some information. He went to the reception and found out that it was packed with a huge line. There were 2 receptionists, one male, and another female. The line of the female receptionist was huge than the male. The female looked like a beautiful girl in her 20s. The male looked around his 40s with a sizable brown beard wearing a formal shirt and pants. He stood in the line of the male receptionist. After around 20 minutes his turn came. "Hello, my name is Tommy. How can I help you, young trainer?" The receptionist asked. Axel then said, "This is my first time here. I want to accept some quest if you would be so helpful." "Oh.. If it is your first time then you will have to be registered first. Please hand me your Pokecard so I can get you registered. I will also have to connect your bank account through Pokecard." Axel handed him his Pokecard and Tommy started entering the data. League Association was like ''Freelancer.com'' in his previous world. They would connect the customer with people like Axel for various jobs. If there were some wild Pokemon in the outskirt or in the city or any burglars or thief, then League Association would also handle it giving some quest on it. Of course, there must be some qualifications for the job. Like, if Brew''d Awakening requests for some temporary staff at the peak hours then, the person must have some experience in the restaurant business. If there was a thief who is in the rank of ''Advanced trainer'' then League Association would not let Beginner trainer take the job. After being registered, Tommy gave Axel an interface (like a desktop computer), in which he could look at all the quest, rewards, and qualifications for them. There were hundreds of quests listed on the interface. Axel started browsing through it and found a suitable one. A group of Beedrill had been causing a rampage near the edge of the forest. 2 trainers were seriously injured and it had been happening for a few days. There was a reward of 30000 Pokedollars. It was said that some idiots tried to get honey from the Beedrill colony and killed some young Weedle. Beedrill was a type of Pokemon that took grudges seriously. So, they have been hurting the trainers that came in their way. The quest was either to catch or kill those Beedrills. Axel thought to take this job. There was only 1 reason for him taking this job. Beedrill was a poison/bug type Pokemon. It also had some normal attacks. Shedinja was immune to all the 3 types of attacks. So, it would not be hard for him to take this job. He would have to be careful though. So, he went to Pokemart to get some potions and antidotes. The antidotes were for him. Shedinja was immune to poison but he was not. He bought, 2 potions, 4 super potions, 2 repel, 4 antidotes, and around 20 Pokeballs. The repels were just for precaution. If the size of the Beedrill colony was huge then, he would use repel and run from there. It took an hour and a half for Axel to get to the edge of the forest. "Arise" Axel said and his shadow flickered and Shedinja came out of it. This was the way Axel wanted Shedinja to come out when he said ''Arise''. It seemed cool to do it. "Shedinja, we are now near Beedrill colony. Beedrill stay in a group so there could be many. Almost all of its attack will not affect you so this could be an easy battle. It may have flying type move like peck. So we must be careful. Are you ready" "Shed.. Shed" Very soon, they saw around 10 Beedrills with some Weedle near them. They seem to be close. Axel waited for some of them to scatter but they seem vigilant. So, Axel planned to attack all of them at once. "Shedinja, use harden 3 times and then use mass Hypnosis on them. Don''t worry about Weedle, just focus on Beedrill for now". Shedinja could only use harden 3 times due to its low mastery. Shedinja carefully used shadow sneak and hid under the shadow, when it came a bit near, it used mass ''Hypnosis''. Since, it was day, hypnosis effect were also slow. It used ''hypnosis'' 2 more times and 5 Beedrill came under sleep status. By this time, other 5 Beedrill had already noticed Shedinja and they immediately attacked. 3 of them used ''Pin missile'' , one of them started charging ''Hyper beam'' and another started charging ''Solar beam''. These last 2 Beedrills seemed exceptionally powerful as they could use these stab moves. ''Pin missiles'' hit Shedinja and just flew out. At the same time, ''Hyper beam'' and ''Solar beam'' also connected to Shedinja. Huge amount of dust and sand flew out due to the impact. After 10 seconds, it started to get visible. And there stood Shedinja without any damage what so ever. That''s right. ''Hyper beam'', ''Solar beam'', and ''Pin missile'' had no effect on Shedinja cause it is immune due to its ''Wonder guard'' ability. Those 5 Beedrills were shocked to see this scene. They never thought that they would face a powerful Pokemon like Shedinja. Axel quickly instructed his Pokemon to use ''Hypnosis'' on the 2 Beedrill who had used ''Hyper beam'' and ''Solar beam'' respectively. Since they were tired due to their attacks, they fell asleep. Shedinja then used Shadow sneak and came behind the 3 active Beedrills. It then used gust on them. Gust is a flying type move and it is super effective against Beedrill. 2 of them were critically hit as it was in a point-blank range. One of them flew away but it was hit partially by the attack. Axel identified the 2 sleeping Beedrills. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon name :- Beedrill (Age:- 5 years) Pokemon nickname :- None Ability :- Swarm Potential :- Red (Advanced) ¡ª¡ª¡ª??¡ª Axel was shocked. It was hard to find Pokemon with Red potential and above. Due to his Identify being only level 6, he couldn''t see their moves but he was happy of what he saw. He immediately threw 2 Pokeballs and caught them. He then identified other 5 sleeping Beedrill. Due to the ruckus, they were starting to wake up. 3 of them were of Blue (low) potential and 2 of them were of Green (Normal) potential. He threw 5 Pokeballs and caught them immediately. Meanwhile, Shedinja was battling those 3 Beedrills. Using the combination of shadow sneak and gust a few more times, they were defeated. What would you expect from a Pokemon that would not take any damage. Shedinja then used Hypnosis and made them sleep too. ''Shedinja is too OP. If used nicely, it would be invincible'' Axel thought. Those 3 were also of Green Potential and Axel caught them too. Now, Axel had 10 Beedrills with him. He didn''t want to use them but sell them to Pokemon traders and earn some money. After catching all the Beedrills there was silence in the forest. Axel went near the group of Weedles and found out that there was honey too. And quite a lot of it. He started collecting honey. It was around 15 liters of honey. Then he found something amazing. Among a group of Weedles, there was a Weedle with a different color. It was yellow instead of Brown. It was a shiny Weedle. He couldn''t believe his luck. Shiny Pokemon are normally powerful than their normal counterpart. But he felt bad about catching this Weedle. He was going to sell its parents to Pokemon traders. He first wanted to Identify his Weedle. When he was thinking of catching his Weedle or not, he could hear a buzz sound coming from afar. There were 5 Beedrills coming for the rescue. But even from afar, he could sense that 1 of the Beedrill was very strong. Axel instantly knew that he may not win this fight. So he did what intelligent trainers would do in such a situation. He ran. Shedinja was using ''Shadow sneak?? and ''Hypnosis'' to slow them down. Axel was running without looking back. Shedinja could be a safe cause of its ''Wonder guard'' Ability but he could not. So he ran. Among the 5 Beedrills 2 of them went to safeguard the Weedles. But 3 of them came to him. Among those 2 Beedrills safeguarding the Weedle, one of it was the strong one. But the 3 of the Beedrills who were chasing Axel weren''t so weak either. Seeing Axel getting far, all of them used ''Hyper beam'' together. Those rays of ''Hyper beam'' combined and a huge and fast yellow-ray flew towards Axel at extreme speed. Shedinja came at a crucial moment and blocked that ''Hyper beam'' with his ability. Even though Shedinja took the full hit, the impact of hyper beam was massive. Its shock wave made Axel fly for 5 meters when he crashed on the ground. He crashed on the grass so he had only minor injuries. He tried to stand up fast and started to run again. Unlike other 2 Beedrills who were tired after using ''Hyper beam'' and ''solar beam??? these 3 were not. They took some time while Shedinja started to use ''hypnosis''. As ''hypnosis'' mastery level was not that high, they became slow but didn''t fall asleep. They started chasing again and this time all of them charged ''Solar beam'' and attacked Axel. Shedinja again came to the rescue. This time Axel was a bit far so the impact didn''t blow him away. The chasing continued for some time and the trio again charged ''Hyper beam''. "What the hell. I didn''t think that a few Beedrills will make so much trouble" Axel shouted. Shedinja again blocked the attack. But this time all of them were tired. They were huffing and puffing. Shedinja used a couple of ''gust'' and then ''hypnosis'' and then they finally fainted. Axel threw 3 Pokeballs and caught them. They were of Red potential too. "I never thought that I would nearly die fighting Beedrills but at least my luck is good" Axel murmured. Axel got 15 liters of Honey, which was an accomplishment. When he was browsing the quest in the Association, he had found a quest from Brew''d Awakening wanting 10 liters of Beedrill honey. He had completed this quest without any thinking. The most he gained from this battle was the Beedrills with Red Potential. It was very rare to find Pokemons with Red Potentials and above and he had caught 5 of them. He planned to sell these to Pokemon traders at a high price. But his quest was not completed. There were still 2 Beedrills left and one of them was very strong. So he waited till night for this battle. Beedrill is a bug type Pokemon, so it would not have night vision like Shedinja as Shedinja is a ghost type Pokemon. And Shedinja attacks like ''hypnosis'' and ''shadow sneak'' would show good effect during the night. So he waited for the night, healing his injuries. Chapter 19 - First Quest 1 Waiting was boring in the forest. Plus Axel had to hide carefully so that other Pokemon would not notice him. Shedinja also improved its stats while battling. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Hypnosis has leveled up to 4 Ding! Gust has leveled up to 3 Ding! Shadow sneak has leveled up to 3 Ding! Shedinja''s agility has upgraded to E ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª That was a massive increment for Shedinja. ''I think, a stressful situation will lead to a better increase in stats'' Axel thought. One thing he found out about Shedinja was that Axel didn''t have to give him command constantly as he did to Nidoran. Shedinja was thinking on its own and using its power to the best of its abilities. Shedinja may be weak than Nidoran but it had some strong points too. It seemed more m.a.t.u.r.e than Nidoran. "Shedinja, good battle out there. You saved me, buddy." "Shedinjjaa" it said proudly. "Do you like a nickname Shedinja?" Axel asked curiously. Shedinja thought a bit and nodded. "Okay then, I will call you Marcus then. Marcus is someone who was very close to me. I hope you honor that name Shedinja" Axel said. Axel named Shedinja after his dog in the previous world. Thinking about Marcus was what led him to catch Shedinja in the first place. Hearing this, Shedinja''s eyes started to water. Here was Axel taking care of him and there was Bruno, his previous trainer who did nothing more than berate him all day long. Hearing Axel, Shedinja started to think that humans may not be so bad. It had started to hate humans when it was with Bruno. "Hey, you don''t have to cry Marcus, you are with me now. It will all be okay. Alright" Axel said patting Shedinja''s head. Tears still didn''t stop and Shedinja hugged Axel burring its head in Axel''s c.h.e.s.t and started crying softly. After some emotional moments, it was night already and now this was the time for battle. They had already thought about the plan. They were observing those 2 Beedrills. After some time, one of them started to go to the way, where Axel ran. It might be searching for the other Beedrills. After going for some significant distance, Shedinja used ''Shadow sneak'' and used ''hypnosis''. Since it was night, ''hypnosis'' had a good effect and it started to slow down. Then Shedinja came to its back and used ''gust''. This affected Beedrill as it was in close distance. Shedinja used ''shadow sneak'' again and disappear into the shadows. It came out again from the back and used ''gust'' again. Beedrill was able to partially doze it. Again Shedinja did the same thing, but this time Beedrill was vigilant and used ''Pin missile''. Of course, this did no damage to Shedinja. It again went to the shadow and then used ''hypnosis''. After receiving 2 ''gust'' hypnosis took effect and it started to fall asleep. Shedinja then used ''dream eater'' to Beedrill. Axel then caught the Beedrill with his Pokeball. This Beedrill was of Orange (Normal) potential. Axel then went to the remaining Strong Beedrill and waited. They waited for Beedrill to sleep. Around 2 am at night, that Beedrill finally feel asleep. Axel then told Shedinja to use ''hypnosis'' 3 times just to make sure. Axel then told Shedinja to use ''dream eater'' on the Beedrill 2 times to reduce its health. And then he threw the Pokeball and it was finally caught. After he caught the Pokemon he could Identify it fully. He found out that this Beedrill had Purple (Advanced) potential. This was an extremely rare case!!. He only had seen Nidoran with purple potential. It also knew ''Hyper beam'', ''Solar beam'', ''Giga impact'' and ''Double edge''. This was a very powerful Pokemon that he had seen till now in the wild. If he had fought it in normal circ.u.mstances then he would have certainly died. Plus the dangerous Aura it gave made him alert. Axel wanted to use this Beedrill in his team. But he couldn''t do it. It was the same reason, he rejected Golem. It was very powerful for him to control. Plus this Beedrill is a wild Pokemon. After it is released from the Pokeball, it will immediately attack. So he had to sell this to Pokemon Traders. He then went to the Pokemon center, ate some food and lied on his bed. He could hardly sleep thinking of what had happened today. He still felt regret that he could not catch the shiny Weedle. Unlike in the games and in anime, if trained well, any Pokemon could be powerful even Beedrill. It may take a lot of effort but it could be powerful. Like, it may be easier to train Charmander than a Weedle. But with the right strategy and tactics, Beedrill could be a powerful pokemon. Giovanni''s starter Pokemon was Weedle. Giovanni trained it well and now it is one of the Pokemon in his main team. Axel had seen Giovanni''s Beedrill defeating a fully grown Dragonite. That Dragonite was very Powerful but still, Beedrill won. Beedrill has high attack stats and its nature mostly is competitive. When it Mega evolves to Mega Beedrill it would be a beast. The only bad thing about a Bug Pokemon like Beedrill is it has a low life expectancy. A Beedrill to live up to 50 years. It may sound very high but a normal person in the Pokemon world could live up to 150 years. Strong trainers could live up to 200 years. Professor Oak is around 170 years and is still healthy. And normally Pokemons could live more than humans. So, seeing Beedrill only living for around 50 years, he felt conflicted to catch one. Of course, its life expectancy could be increased by using rare materials but that would be heavily expensive for Axel. Giovanni''s Beedrill is around 60 years old and still kicking. After closing his eyes for some time, Axel fell asleep. Chapter 20 - Life Runs with Money A/N: I m finally back.. finished my exams and my work. I got my laptop temporarily fixed. It should be okay for now. I will post another chapter tomorrow.. and then it will be 2 chapters per week. I m planning to open a patreonn account cause i cannot function with money. sorry for the wrong spelling on "Patreonn", the actually blocks the word. I want this novel to complete and cannot allocate my free time without money. There will be some additional chapters on Patreonn. hope you guy support me. Enjoy the chapter -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 a.m. in the morning Axel woke up stretching his arms and legs. Normally, he''s waking time was around 5 a.m. But considering that he reached the Pokemon center at around 4 a.m. at the night, he woke up late today. If he was in his home, he would have to do the morning dishes instead of his father. Shedinja also opened its eyes after hearing the noise of its trainer Axel had only 3 objectives for today: 1. Meet with Nidoran. Nurse joy had told him that he could meet with Nidoran today as the visiting hours are open from today. 2. Complete the mission in ''League Association'' and sell all the Beedrills. 3. And finally buy Gogoat at the auction. He showered as he was very dirty from yesterday and went down to eat some breakfast. After that, he finally went to meet with Nurse joy. "Hello, Miss Clarie. How are you this fine evening?" Axel asked smiling. "I am very well Axel. Someone looks in a very good mood today. I hope you are here to meet with Nidoran." Clarie replied. "Yes, I am. I was told that I could meet him today" Axel said. "Yes, visiting hours are open now. I could discharge Nidoran tomorrow morning. But he still needs to rest for 1 or 2 days before his training starts." Clarie then lead Axel to meet with his Pokemon. Nidoran was sleeping at this time. It had a boring past day as the nurse joy had said it to rest. It had bandages all over its body. When Axel entered the room, it quickly opened its eyes and was starting to jump to greet its trainer but seeing a stern look from nurse joy from behind it didn''t. Although Nidoran was healed but it still needed some time to be completely healthy. "How are you buddy? Are you doing ok?" Axel asked patting Nidoran''s ear. "Nido!¡­ Nidoooran" it said excitedly. But after remembering that it could not battle for the finals, it felt depressed. "Ohh don''t worry about the tournament. We only trained for a month but came second. We will train more from now on." Said Axel. Nidoran then relaxed a bit after hearing it. While Shedinja was m.a.t.u.r.e, Nidoran was childish in nature. It immediately believed its trainer and became happy. Axel talked to Nidoran for 10 minutes and then left him to recover. Axel then said his goodbye to nurse joy and then left the premises. After walking for almost an hour he reached ''League Association''. Gringey was a big city. The Pokemon world and its cities were very large compared to games and in anime. He then went to Tommy to submit his quest. "Hello young trainer. How can I help you?" said the receptionist politely. Axel then submitted the quests that he had completed. "Oh you completed the Beedrill''s honey quest too?". Tommy was shocked a little when he saw this. Getting honey from Beedrill colony was completely different from fighting some Beedrills. Axel then received 130000 Pokedollars from the quest. The first quest was of 30000 Pokedollars and the honey quest was 20000 Pokedollars per liter of honey with 5 liters required. The quest was posted by Brew''d Awakening so the price was a bit high. Plus Beedrill''s honey was high in demand. Satisfied with his earning, he went to ''Pokemon Traders'' building to sell the Beedrills and the remaining honey. The interior of the building was dark brown and black. The place didn''t look inviting to say the least. But Axel didn''t care about that. He just wanted to sell the Pokemons and get the hell out of there. There was a m.a.t.u.r.e woman around 40 years of age sleeping on the desk. Axel then went up to the reception and wake the woman. "Hey kid, what are you here for? Buy or sell? Pokemon or items?" the woman asked in a hoarse and rude voice as someone had just woke her up from an exciting dream. "I want to sell some Beedrills. There are 14 of them and I have 9 liters of honey too" Axel said. "Oh, honey is good stuff. Show me the Pokemon and honey." Replied the woman. After reviewing the Pokemons the woman said "Ok kid, your luck is good. 15000 Pokedollars each for the low potential, 50000 Pokedollars each for normal potential, and 150000 Pokedollars each for the advanced potential. 15000 pokedollars per liter of honey." The woman declared. It should be notified that the potential of Pokemon was only divided into low, normal, advanced, and monstrous potential. The colour potential only came from the system and the system was obviously more detailed. "I want 500000 Pokedollars each for advanced potential and 100000 Pokedollars for this one normal potential?? Axel said. "Oh, and why would I give you that?" asked the woman with a questioning gaze. "Because the advanced potential Beedrills could use ''hyper beam'' and ''solar beam''. And this Normal potential one is powerful than others so" After some negotiation, the price came down to this 3 blue (low) potential, 15000 Pokedollars each = 45000 Pokedollars 1 orange (Normal) potential, 75000 Pokedollars 5 Red (Advanced) potential, 350000 Pokedollars each= 1750000 Pokedollars 9 liters of honey, 15000 Pokedollars each= 135000 Pokedollars Total = 2255000 Pokedollars. The amount was credited to his Pokecard immediately. "I have 1 Beedrill which is a bit special. Are you interested in it?" Axel asked. "Oh.. Is it a monstrous potential one?" the woman asked. "I don''t know but, it is more powerful than the other advanced potential one and it knows, ''hyper beam'', ''solar beam'', ''Giga impact??? and ''Double edge''" Axel said. "Give me the Pokeball" the woman said. Axel gave her the Pokeball and the woman took it and went inside the room. After about 5 minutes the woman came and then said " Congratulations young trainer. That Beedrill is not of monstrous potential but it is above advanced in potential. You have very good luck". The woman''s behavior changed immediately after he gave the Pokeball. She was rude at first but now she was treating him a like customer. "So, how much will I get for it?" Axel asked. "You will have to proceed to 1st floor. The dealing above advanced potential is done on the first floor and of monstrous potential on the 2nd floor." The woman said. Axel then went to the first floor. There was an old man wearing a formal, white shirt and black pants with dark blue tie in the reception. He was very polite compared to that rude woman. "Sir, this Beedrill of yours is of very good quality and we could give you 5 million Pokedollars for this transaction. But are you sure you want to sell it? Pokemon above advanced potential is a very rare find" the old man said. "Could you tell me what is the difference between advanced and above advanced potential? I have only heard of low, normal, advanced and monstrous potential" Axel asked "Sure sir, this is common knowledge. There is a huge difference between advanced potential and monstrous potential Pokemon. So to narrow this gap, traders like us call it advanced potential Pokemons. Their talents are above advanced potential but it doesn''t come close to monstrous potential Pokemon" "Oh. Ok then, I would like to sell this Beedrill" Axel said. "Alright then, could you give me the details of your Pokecard?" the old man seemed happy with this transaction. Axel''s bank account immediately increased by 5 million dollars. He didn''t want to negotiate with this transaction. 5 million Pokedollars was already way above his estimate. This showed how differently Pokemons with each potential are valued. Normal advanced potential ones are traded at 50000 Pokedollars but above advanced are traded 100 times the price. Axel now had 7885000 in his bank account. He never dreamed that he would one day earn so much money in his lifetime. Axel then happily went existed the premises to buy Gogoat. Chapter 21 - Auction House A/n: Hey guy ... another chapter just as said. i came back after few weeks so the ranking of this novel has been all time low. so some Power stones will be very much helpful. hope you guys support me. your comments are the things that makes me want to write again.. enjoy the chapter --------------------------------------------------- The auction house was not very far from the Pokemon Hunters building. But Axel wanted to take his time and roam around for some time. He had earned a lot of money and he realized that he had not even looked around the city to explore. He bought a locket with a black stone craved into Gengar for his sister. His sister was on weird things. Not the a.d.u.l.t weird but child weird. He thought she may like it. He also wanted to buy some things for his parents but he decided not to. He had not bought anything for his parents till now. So he wanted to buy something big and expensive for them. He knew he didn''t have the luxury for that now. His parents right now were much better than his earthling parents. His mama and papa from earth were career-driven people so they didn''t have much time for him. They did care for him but he was always alone with his grandfather. He did miss them from time to time but his parents here had time for him and care much deeply. So he wanted to do something good for them. At around 3 p.m. he went to the auction house. The guard stopped him. "I have an appointment with Mr. Timoothy Zard" Axel said. The guard then talked through his walkie-talkie and then let him in. He was led by a beautiful girl wearing black pants, a white shirt and a black blazer. "Hello sir, my name is Kate Bane. Mr. Timoothy Zard is waiting for you on the 3rd floor." The girl said. "Hi, I am Axel Blaze." Axel too introduced himself. The girl or shall we call her a woman was around in her 20s. She was a brunette with black hair with brown colour highlighted. The hair ended below her shoulders. Her height was around 5 feet 9 inches but she looked above 6 feet due to her 4-inch hills. She had long legs and a banging a.s.s. She was a slim girl with medium-sized b.o.o.b.s, at least that is what Axel figured. She had a beautiful face with red lips and you could cut a stone with her cheekbones. All in all she was a beautiful lady. Axel was just staring at her a.s.s jiggle remotely as she was leading the way climbing up the stairs. The jiggling of her a.s.s on her tight pants may not be noticeable for a normal person but Axel, being an experienced Pokemon trainer could notice those minute movements. Her height looked almost double of Axel as girls normally look taller than boys even if their height is the same. Axel may only be 13 years old but he was already in his 20s when he died on earth. So he was awestruck when he saw her. Thus she became his first crush after he came to this world. Axel didn''t even realize when he reached the 3rd floor. Kate knocked on the door 3 times and the voice said to come in. Axel guessed when one''s crush knocked 3 times, you would know that it is definitely not 2 times. The voice seemed old. "Alright then, Mr. Axel please proceed inside" Kate said politely. "Ahh.. Huh.. Oh ok then. Thank you Miss kate." He said and then walked inside. The room was very well decorated with paintings on the wall which seemed like which was drawn by famous painters. The interior was very nice and inviting, not like the one in Pokemon hunters. And old man wearing a formal suit with full moon spectacles was sitting on a chair and seeping tea. He put down the cup on the table and welcomed Axel. "Ahh.. Mr. Axel. A p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e to be at your acquaintance. Mr. Koga had said a lot of things about you" Timoothy said standing up and raising his hand for a handshake. "All good thing I hope and the p.l.e.a.s.u.r.e is all mine Mr. Timoothy" Axel replied shaking his hand. "Oh all good .. All good.. Please have a seat" The old man''s surname was ''Zard'' which was after Charizard. This was an another interesting fact he learned when coming into this world. The starter Pokemons were not chosen randomly. It came up with lot of history. Each of the starter Pokemons had done something great in that particular region at some point in the history. And there were families that respected those Pokemons or were connected with that history. So they named their surname after them as a sign of respect. ''Zard'' was one of those families and they respected Charizard. There were also ''Toise'' family after Blastoise and ''Venu'' family after Venusaur. There were all-powerful families with lots of connections. And ''Zard'' family owned the Auction house in the Kanto region. Axel sat down and they talked about the Rookie tournament. A girl name Gina won the tournament cause Axel couldn''t attend. The old man was fascinated with Axel''s match and said good things about him. After some time "So I hear from Mr. Koga that you wanted to buy a Gogoat for its milk especially." Timoothy came to the topic. "Yes sir. As my Pokemons are young, they need a lot of nutrients" Axel said. "Ok then I would not make you wait so long. Come out Gogoat!" Timoothy said throwing an ultra ball. A quadrupedal, hooved Pokemon similar to a goat came out. Its fur on the face was white with fluffier fur on the chin and the back of its head was dark brown. It had a black nose, red eyes encircled by black markings, a brown blaze down the middle of its face, and rounded ears. On top of its head was a pair of curving black horns that extend over its back. It was covered in shaggy, brown fur that was darker across the back and lighter around the belly and legs. Around its neck is a thick, green leafy mane that extends down its back and ends in a short, bushy tail. The fur on its legs was shorter than the rest of its body; it is dark brown on the upper leg and white around the feet. Each foot ends in a cloven, brownish-orange hoof. It was Gogoat. Gogoat and Axel stared at each other for some seconds and then Axel said patting its fluffy body "Hey Gogoat how are you? From now on you will be my Pokemon and we are going to have a lot of adventure together." Axel said. "Gogoatttt" it said with a normal voice. Axel was shocked a bit. It was a Pokemon he was going to buy so he expected he would have a rocky relationship with it for some time. But Gogoat didn''t seem to have any problems with it and just seem to agree. "This Gogoat is a very m.a.t.u.r.e Pokemon and it doesn''t want to battle. Since you just want it for the milk, I think it would be perfect for you. It is a rare ranked Pokemon with normal potential. Are you satisfied with it?" Mr. Timoothy asked. Mr. Timoothy had some problems with selling this Pokemon. This Pokemon doesn''t want to fight and most people would not buy it. It was also a bit lazy. "I am happy with this. How much would it cost me?" Axel asked. "I have already talked about this with Mr. Koga and since he and I are good friends I m willing to sell you this with 50% discount. It would cost you 7 million Pokedollars" said the old man. Axel was shocked by this amount. It was just a normal potential. Though it was a rare ranked Pokemon but even if with 50% discount it cost him 7 million Pokedollars. If Axel was to buy it at full price it would cost 14 million Pokedollars. And he sold above advanced potential Beedrill, though only uncommon ranked for only 5 million Pokedollars. He felt cheated. He didn''t know the prices on the market. So he was ripped off. What Axel didn''t know was that he had got a fair price on Beedrill. The difference in ranks makes a huge difference in money and bug type Pokemon are sold at very less prices. It is cause of their low life expectancy and thinking that they are not very powerful Pokemons. Though Axel was shocked he didn''t show it in his face. He didn''t want to negotiate the price cause he already got 50% discount on it and he knew that the old man would not cheat on him cause of Mr. Koga. He paid the price and got Gogoat. Axel only had 884800 Pokedollars with him now. After the transaction was completed, "We also have some other exciting items that you may like. We also have Gogoat food recipe and it would be vital if you want those nutritious milk. Are you interested on it?" Mr. Timoothy asked. "Not now. I may come after couple of day to get it though. I have some important task to complete so I would be leaving immediately?? Axel said. What a joke. He went from being a millionaire to¡­ well not being a millionaire in one afternoon. He cannot afford to lose money now. Axel came from a middle class family from both of his lives. So he knew the value of money. He said his goodbyes to the old man and then left the office. Unfortunately, he could not see Kate when he was walking out. It may sound a bit creepy but after losing so much money he just wanted to see her beautiful face to make himself feel better. He didn''t have the guts to ask her out. Cause A, he was only 13 years old. He didn''t want her to brush it off thinking it was a joke and B, he had never asked a girl out in his life. He had 1 girlfriend back on earth but the girl was the one who asked him out. He feels that if the girl says no, he would just crumble into the sand and just breeze out with help of air. Axel then walked out of the building to finally roam around the city. It was still afternoon and he didn''t want to train today, so he thought to give himself a holiday for today. Chapter 22 - Notice (New plan, not a chapter) (Please read all of it. it is pretty long) Hello guys, a new day and a new year. So, happy belated new year 2021. You guy might be thinking "where is this guy. he (Yes, i m a he not a she) promised 1000+ chapters and he is Poof!! in 24 chapters. it is not even 24 chapters by the way. there are at least 3 or more chapters with notices like this. he declared to complete this novel and now he is gone. he is such a d.i.c.k.... " well, i do deserve that but not the d.i.c.k part i hope. I have been busy these past 3 weeks. Got a new job.. move to a new house.. made some new close friends (). Well, this year is showing some good signs. so I need a week to get things done (Yes 1 more week). IT is just that i don''t want to deliver half-ass chapters and give my best and that needs time. But seriously the new house is really good. Above expectations. I now finally feel that i am a chartered accountant when i enter the room. Which reminds me.. i have not even introduced myself. I am a Chartered accountant (Or CPA in some countries) living in Nepal. But for some reason, I do not want to reveal my name. I guess it is my vigilante soul talking to me. Just call me ''The Silver Prince''. Yeah changed my name too... From... ''S.e.xyImagination'' to ''TheSilverPrince''. I thought, New place, new job.. why not new name? Now to the serious part. I have been posting 2 chapters per week. Now it will be 3-4 chapters per week from next Sunday. I will create my patreeon account too ... i really need some help from you guys financially.. moving to new place have decreased my savings a lot. Yeah, i promised Patreeon few weeks ago too.. But what can i do.. it is difficult to create a Paypal account in a country that doesnot have access to Paypal account. Writing this novel... had made me feel that i really like to read you guys comments. I don''t care about the reviews that much. Power stones will help a lot though. So post some comments to tell what you feel. But i will complete this novel. i may be late somedays... but not never. I know i m arrogant, stupid, and selfish. I am asking for your money when i am not even delivering chapters. But you know.. when life gives you melons ... you know the drill But my old man use to say... "Humans are stupid to the point of being adorable.. so don''t be STUPID... Don''t be HUMAN.. be more.. be GOD!!!" Chapter 23 - New Partner Fast forward 15 hours, 6 a.m. in the morning A boy with light silver hair was doing push-ups, huffing, and puffing. He had his night trousers, and b.a.r.e c.h.e.s.t sweating to show his hard work. The boy was not very fit with abs and big biceps but his body looked toned with almost no fat. This boy was our protagonist, Axel Blaze. Axel was a bit excited and nervous today. Cause today was the day, he was going to get his new Pokemon that Mr. Koga promised. He was also going to get 10 million Pokedollars but he didn''t give this matter much thought. If the Pokemon is coming from a person like Mr. Koga then it must have very high potential and if he didn''t like Pokemon, it would not be good. Like what if it was a void potential Goldeen or a Meowth? What would he do? It is not like they are bad Pokemons. If used well they could be deadly but for a Pokemon to be powerful, they must have a good connection with the trainer. And Axel didn''t think that he would connect to Pokemons like Goldeen and Meowth. Spending some time with his Pokemons in his room and surfing through Internet, it was already 9 p.m. Then he received a call in his room telling him to come to the ground floor to meet Nurse joy. "Hello Nurse Joy, I got a call from the reception to meet you" Axel said giving a morning vibe tone. "Oh.. Yes Axel. Didn''t knew you would come so fast. I figured that you had already left outside for your training. Anyhow, your package just arrived. The money will be transferred to you within a minute after you sign this paper and here is your package" said Nurse joy carrying a huge egg incubator. It looked heavy and she was carrying it with utmost care. Inside the incubator was a red-colored egg with a hint of dragon scales. "Oh here are 2 letters for you. I was told to tell you to read Mr. Koga''s letter first" she said. 2 Nurse assistants helped Axel to carry the egg incubator into his room. It was not that the egg was heavy, it was the incubator. The incubator looked high class and expensive. After he thanked the 2 nurse assistants and closed the door, he took 2 deep breathes. That was not what he had expected. He had got a f.u.c.k.i.n.g egg. He thought he would get a Pokeball with a Pokemon inside but he got an egg. Mr. Koga seemed to have pulled out a lot of strings for this. Getting an egg is a very big deal. Getting an egg from a wild Pokemon to do any activity is considered illegal. The laws for this are so strict that the repercussion for this is was either Ling chi or the more severe white torture. Ling chi is a type of punishment where the condemned was tied to a post and bits of skin and limbs were gradually removed one by one, usually culminating in a final cut to the heart or decapitation. White torture is psychological torture. It is a type of sensory deprivation in which a prisoner''s cell, clothes, and food are entirely white. Guards were all white, lights are kept on 24 hours a day with no words spoken and no color seen. While the physical pain is minimal, the psychological damage is beyond compare. It is like messing with John wick''s dog or Eminem''s daughter. Once you do, you are ¡­. You can only get a Pokemon''s egg with a Pokemon''s consent and this can only happen if the Pokemon you are training or is with you have an egg. Plus the egg had a bit of dragon scales, which means its mother or father was a dragon type Pokemon. He slowly opened Mr. Koga letter and it read: ''Axel, this is an egg of Charmander. I got it from a friend name Elizabeth who runs Charicific Valley in the Johto Region. Its mother and father are very powerful Pokemons, so its potential is bound to be good. Take good care of it. Yours only, Mr. Koga'' Axel was over the moon reading this letter. He had always wanted to get a Charmander but he never thought that he would get it this fast. And this Charmander''s potential may be good as per Mr. Koga. He then opened the 2nd letter. It was not from Mrs. Elizabeth that he had expected but a girl named Liza. It read "Hey, my name is Liza and I am Elizabeth''s daughter. The mother of this Charmander is Hydreigon and the father is Charizard. They are both powerful Pokemons and they have given the consent to give you this egg. They only want you to take good care of it and visit once in a while." This was another good news for Axel. Though his favorite Pokemon is Charizard, he was always disappointed that Charizard was not a dragon type Pokemon. I mean it acted like a dragon and looked like a dragon but was not a dragon type. But now since it is mother is Hydreigon it will have dragon characteristics. It is will not be a fire/dragon type Pokemon. But it may learn some dragon-type moves which would be very helpful. At the bottom of the incubator was time counting backward and it showed 2 days. That meant that the egg will hatch in 2 days. So, Axel thought that he would wait for 2 days in Gringey city and move after Charmander comes out. After 2 days, "Marcus use harden and then agility" "Shedinja¡­." Axel was training Shedinja as he was waiting for the egg to hatch. They were still about 7 hours for the egg to hatch. Axel had been only giving light exercise for Nidoran as he was just released from the hospital and he was also not going full throttle with Shedinja cause he knew that Shedinja trained at night too. Though it never seemed to acknowledge it. He had thought for a long time and decided on a career path for Shedinja. Shedinja was different from his other Pokemons. It was way more intelligent for its kind which was not normal. It was hard working too. So Axel thought to train not only its body but also its mind. Increasing mental capacity helps to increase potential. There are a lot of things needed to increase potential as doing this was very rare. But almost everything could be bought with money, except ''mental capacity''. As he was training Shedinja to fight with Bug Pokemons he noticed something. It was the shiny Weedle he regretted to leave before. He was so excited to see it that he immediately threw an ultra ball to catch the Pokemon. Yes, he had mistakenly threw an ultra ball instead of a Pokeball to catch Weedle. He cursed this luck. Pokeball came at 200 Pokedollars whereas Ultra ball came at 15000 Pokedollars. Obviously, the Weedle was caught but he was not very happy. How very wrong he was. Not only he could not use master ball to catch the legendary Pokemon, but he also lost Mightyena, his ace. It was the highest level Pokemon he had at that time. And that was not the worst part. The worst part was that when he could not win the Physic gym (which was the 2nd last gym) and then he learned that if you train Poochyena and evolve it and train some more, it will learn ''crunch'' which is super effective against Physic type Pokemon. So he had gone all the way to the starting town to catch Poochyena with Master ball as he thought that it would be an important Pokemon. He had trained that Pokemon for days. And now he had lost it. So, when he caught Weedle with an Ultra ball he felt bad but didn''t think much about it. Somewhere at the middle of the night, in a brightly lit room, Tring!! Tring!!¡­.. Tring!! Tring!!¡­ Kachak.. " Hell¡ªO! Who the hell are you bastard?" came an angry old man voice. "Well, it is not refreshing to hear your voice too old man" said an a.d.u.l.t voice. "Ohh.. If it is not little Koga. But why are you calling me in this ungodly hour?" said the old man again in an irritated voice. "I have something important to tell you." Said Mr. Koga. "Ok then. Chop! Chop! I have bigger fish to fry" said the old man. ''What bigger fish to fry? To go to sleep. This guy really gets on my nerves'' thought Mr. Koga. " I have nominated a boy for LAT and I want you to support him too."Said Mr. Koga. "Ohh, now that is an interesting turn of events. You rarely do this type of thing. But I cannot support that kid just based on your words. He would have to prove it. You already know that." Replied the old man. "I know and he will in due time. But you know my intuition. I am just advising you to grab the cakes when they are hot. Plus I gave him that egg of Elizabeth" said Mr. Koga. "What egg?" "That egg". "Ohh¡­ I cannot believe that Elizabeth let go of that egg. I wonder how you convinced her. But that Charizard is not as powerful as my Charizard. What the big deal?" said the old man with a feeling of pride. "Cause your Charizard is a monster. Don''t compare Pokemon with a monster, old man" replied Mr. Koga raising his voice. "Haha¡­ I guess you are right. And from what I have heard, that Charizard is the most powerful Charizard after mine. That Hydreigon is not half bad too." Said the old man. "Ok then, I will meet the boy in my town and then I will test him. If he is good as you have said then I will support him. But he will have to come to my town first." Saying that the old man ended the conversation. "Hehe¡­ things are getting interesting," said the old man. Chapter 24 - Welcome to the world, Charmander and the Encounter The Egg started to move slightly too and fro. It started to crack after some time. 2 Pokemons and a boy were starring at the Pokemon intensely. The Pokemon inside was having a hard time coming out of the egg. But Axel didn''t interfere. Helping the Pokemon to come out of the egg will not have a good impact on Pokemon in the future. After more than 5 minutes, the Pokemon came out. It was a bipedal, reptilian Pokemon with a primarily orange body and blue eyes. Its underside from the c.h.e.s.t down and the soles of its feet were cream-colored. It had two small fangs visible in its upper jaw and two smaller fangs in its lower jaw. A fire burned at the tip of this Pok¨¦mon''s slender tail. Its height was around 75 cm which was taller than normal Charmander having 61 cm height. It was Charmander. It looked around the room and found out Axel. Then, "Charmander¡­. Char.. Char!!" it said and jumped to Axel''s l.a.p. Though it was just born, Charmander was very energetic. Axel was not expecting that. Shedinja and Nidoran came to see Charmander but it was scared of them and kept hugging Axel by closing its eyes. Well, it was just born so Axel didn''t complain. The 2 Pokemon just went a bit far with sad faces. The feeling Axel got by seeing Charmander was different from Nidoran and Shedinja. He felt very close to Charmander though it was just born. It may be him always wanting to have a Charizard or it may be cause it was just born but he felt really attached to this red reptilian Pokemon. Axel then went to meet with Nurse joy to get Charmander immediately checked. Though it looked healthy Axel wanted to make sure that there were no problems with Charmander. After around 20 minutes, Nurse Joy came with happy news carrying Charmander, "Charmander is fine and very healthy. You don''t need to worry a thing about him. When you came running and acting a bit scared I thought something bad must have happened. You scared me there.. Haha" said Nurse Joy. "Oh.. Sorry for that Nurse Joy. This is the first time I have seen a Pokemon being born and it got scared of Shedinja and Nidoran so I got scared too" he said scratching his head. "Ohh. Don''t worry about that. Sometimes, Newborn Pokemon gets scared of other Pokemons at first. It takes them a bit of time to adjust. But now this Charmander needs a lot of nutrients if you want it to be a powerful Pokemon in the future. So take good care of it." Said Nurse Joy. After 4 days. Axel was in the forest walking towards Matcha city to meet with Dr. Akihabara (from chapter 10). Nurse Joy had said that there is some problem with Nidoran that is hindering his potential and he needed to meet with Dr. Akihabara to know more about it. There had not been much progress in the training department. Axel rested and played with Charmander for 2 days cause it needed care as it was just a baby. Then he left Gringey city and bought food recipes for Gogoat line which costed him around 0.5 million Pokedollars. He didn''t have much money to buy a recipe for Charmander but he was not hurried for it. Charmander was just a baby and now it needed only milk from Gogoat. But this little Pokemon was sure a Glutton. It was very playful too. It had already learned to prank Nidoran scaring him from time to time. And it always slept in the afternoon and wake up at night. Axel was having a sleepless night for 4 days. Axel at least didn''t want to train it for a week to get it adjusted around. Axel wanted to know what moves it had but he could not. When he thought to catch Charmander with a Pokeball, it ran away and didn''t want to be inside a Pokeball. Axel had to give up for now as it was just a baby. But something shocked him. Charmander was of black (Monstrous) Potential. This was the 2nd highest potential after void and this was the first time he had seen it in a Pokemon. Afternoon, Axel and his Pokemons were all resting and taking lunch. It didn''t take Weedle time to adjust with the team. As it turns out, this Weedle was discriminated against in its group due to its color. This was a normal situation for shiny Pokemon. Axel had seen and heard of this many times. But one of the interesting facts about shiny is that it is powerful compared to its normal counterparts. Mega Beedrill will be a powerhouse in the future. As he was just resting, he noticed that Nidoran''s ear just perked up and moved in an upwards direction. It stood in a battle-ready position. Shedinja also used Shadow sneak and disappear in the shadows. This was their position when they notice wild Pokemon. Nidoran will battle at the front and Shedinja will sneak attack. Axel called out Weedle and Put Gogoat in charge of Charmander. It was cause Gogoat could run¡­ fast. It was the fastest Pokemon in his team right now. Leaves in the trees moved slowly and then the pace of the wind increased. Huge branches were flowing too and fro because of the wind. Axel was not liking this one bit. He knew something Powerful has come cause there was an eerie silence in the surrounding. He just hoped that he could make it back alive. Then he noticed something. It took him time to recognize the Pokemon cause it was too small and he expected something really big cause of the presence it had. It was a bipedal Pokemon with mammalian features. It had a rounded, wide snout; triangular ears; and large, blue eyes. It had short arms with three-fingered paws and large hind paws with oval markings on the soles. Its tail was long and thin with an ovoid tip. Its fur was so fine and thin, it could only be seen under a microscope. Axel was amazed. He never expected to meet this Pokemon, not only so fast but not at all in his life. He literally could not speak. His body was shivering with excitement, nervousness and most importantly fear. And then it spoke in a rude, arrogant and manly hoarse voice, "Hello mortal, it has been 13 years. As ordered by that white genic, it is time for me to pass my judgment upon you." Said the creature. "Whh.. Whhhat judgment?" asked Axel shuttering. He was on his knees. Nidoran was on its Knees, Shedinja was on its knees, everyone was on its knees. "Whether a person from another realm like you should be allowed to live or not?" it said as if passing these types of judgment was its daily job. "But before my judgment, I will give an opportunity of being heard to you as the law says the same," said the creature. Chapter 25 - The Meeting ''What should I say? Should I lie? But I have done nothing bad, why should I lie?....'' Axel kept thinking. For a boy whose head was about to roll, he was doing pretty good.. mentally. "Why don''t you tell me your story of how you came to this world. And no lies" said the creature. ''Dammit! This guy could read minds.. Sigh! I guess I will just tell him the truth'' he thought. Then he went on explaining how he died in a place called the earth and how he was reincarnated in this world. He also told again and again that he didn''t do this deliberately, cause apparently, the creature was mad cause he was from another realm. "Hmm¡­ listening to your story makes me feel that it really is not your fault. And that place called earth seems like an interesting place. But you are a trespasser from another realm so I actually came thinking to end your life." And the creature stared at him and paused for a couple of seconds. The psychic pressure generated from the creature''s purple eyes was suffocating. The gale was rustling very loudly was it just wanted to break from the psychic pressure. This was the movement he knew that his life was on the line. After some time the creature said, "But since you have done nothing wrong, you can keep your life." And the psychic pressure stopped as the eyes of the creature changed from purple to blue. Axel finally sighed in relief. He sat properly with his legs crossed and took a deep breath. He never expected his encounter with Mew would be so deadly. Yes, the Pokemon making all this commotion was Mew. It was really rare for people to ever meet Mew but those who have met Mew always described it as a friendly and playful Pokemon. ''You call this friendly and playful? And you kiss your mother with that mouth?'' He thought, basically blaming the Internet cause that is where he had heard about the Mew''s character. Personally meeting people who have met Mew was a dream of some people cause those were very rare. "Relax mortal, since I have said to leave your pitiful life alone, I will definitely not go back on my word." Said Mew trying to calm Axel cause it seemed like he was having a panic attack before. "Since I have made some trouble to you, you can ask some questions if you have any that is" said, Mew. Nidoran, Shedinja and Gogoat were also finally relieved that Mew had calm down. Though they didn''t know who Mew was they could feel that its power was nothing sort of any God that they imagined in their dreams. After calming down a bit, Axel said, "Since you said so, I want to ask Senior Mew why were you hell-bent on thinking of killing me, just cause I am from another realm?" ''Senior Mew'' may sound funny but he didn''t knew how he should address Mew. Mew is the mother of all Pokemon so he wanted to sound respectful. "This world is a like closed dimension. The space around this world is totally closed so it is very rare for an alien species to visit this world. I knew of your existence 13 years ago when you were born. But I cannot investigate you or interrogate you, such is the law." "What kind of this law is this? I haven''t heard about those laws you speak of, nor are there any laws written in the library as per my knowledge" asked Axel. Since he was a child, Axel was a very bookish person and he used to visit the library almost every time. He was very fascinated by the world of Pokemon as the books in the library were more detailed than those of anime and games. But he had never heard these kinds of laws. Mew said the word ''law'' 2 times now and he didn''t know which law was Mew speaking of. "Haha, if the law is not written doesn''t mean that it doesn''t exist. These are ancient laws made by Arceus and the first Pokemon master as a peace treaty. Every Pokemon that are able to think, follow this law. It is like the law, where you humans could not hurt Pokemon''s egg or when they are a baby up to 3 months old" said Mew. "Oh¡­ next question, there are some rumors that I have heard about you, but now that I have met you, you seem to be quite different," said Axel. Even in anime, he had seen Mew being very helpful and friendly. Plus he thought Mew was a female being ''the mother of all Pokemons'' and all that. But this Mew he was meeting now was completely different. This Mew acted rude and arrogant and his voice was like that of Liam Neeson. "Oh, you mean the cute little playful girl one, yeah¡­ that is Mew" "Then who are you?" "Me¡­ haha.. I am MEW!!" Mew declared with a loud voice as if it had revealed the true identity of ''Jon Snow'' (From game of thrones) Axel could neither make head nor tail of that sentence. ''So it is not Mew but MEW!!! The hell does that mean'' he thought. Seeing Axel confused, Mew explained "At first Arceus only created Mew. But that Mew did nothing and would only play around, collect valuables and hide it, and played pranks with people. Being a Legendary Pokemon, she had many responsibilities and her responsibilities were only second to Arceus. But she did nothing and just played around. So, Arceus, Dialga, Palika, and Giratina created me inside Mew. We have one body but 2 souls. I do the hard work and she just enjoys life." "Then why didn''t Arceus just killed her and created only you?" asked Axel being curious. "Turns out I also lack in some areas and she fulfills that role. Arceus says that, she is the bridge between you humans and us Pokemons as she is friendly in nature and she also takes care of Pokemons. But I don''t get why that is the big deal anyway." Replied Mew. Axel then started talking with Mew and cooking food for him and the rest. He wanted to make have a good relationship with MEW as it is MEW. But he also wanted to meet Mew. The She Mew seems to be his type. "Hmm.. You, humans, have revolutionized the way of food. It tastes so much better than the food I eat." MEW said. " Well you could just visit some famous restaurants like B''rewd Awakening if you want or you could come to meet me from time to time" Axel replied. "I could not go to restaurants as we legendaries have to maintain some distance with you humans but I could visit you from time to time," said MEW. When they were eating, MEW suddenly said "You know you trained your Nidoran in a wrong way right." "What do you mean?" asked Axel instantly. "Your Nidoran is already starting to develop Poison core inside its body. It will hinder its potential in the future" Axel was shocked. Nurse Joy had said the same thing, but she didn''t know the cause of that was the poison core. That was the reason why he was heading to meet Dr. Akihabara. "Is there a way to solve the problem?" asked Axel. Axel was feeling bad and his heart was full of regret cause he had trained Nidoran in the wrong way. He just wanted to experiment but this had affected Nidoran''s future. "Oh, don''t worry about it. Since you gave me food I will fix this problem for you. A Pokemon should not develop their cores when they are this young. They first need to refine their muscles, then their bones and finally their blood vessels. Then only should they start forming their cores. Obviously, fully evolved and grown Pokemons could form their cores without going through this process and they would not have any side effects but the elemental powers they could release would be far less powerful than those who refines their muscles, bones and blood vessels. And this process could not be found in your so-called library. It is an ancient way to power but it is a tedious way to do it. It tests Pokemon''s willpower and not many could accomplice it. So it had long been forgotten." Said MEW. MEW''s eyes then turned purple and it started at Nidoran. After some time¡­ ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! The poison core of Nidoran has been removed by an external force. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª "I do not need to remove ghost core from Shedinja. It is a fully evolved Pokemon and it is an a.d.u.l.t. So it would not be affected." Said MEW. "Senior Mew, could I ask a book of that ancient way to power ? I really am interested in this refining process" said Axel in a pleading way. "Yes you could. These types of books having sitting in my dimension for too long. But if you want your Pokemon to use this process, then you first need its consent cause not many Pokemon could complete it." Said MEW and whosh!! an ancient-looking book appeared out of nowhere in MEW''s hand. It then tossed the book to Axel and said "It is farewell then young human." Waving his hand and then ¡­ poof!!! It disappeared. Chapter 26 - Scizor the Prideful, Bruno the Ruthless A/N: There are lots of confusion that you my readers have over the course of this novel and I want to clear it. Some of them are confused with system. IVs and EVs were mentioned before but not now. it will be mentioned as the story goes on. the thing about elemental cores and potential of Pokemons will also be mentioned in later chapters. Some of you are asking if the novel will move towards, cultivation, Chinese like novel. no it won''t. Lastly, I know that plural of Pokemon are also called ''Pokemon'' but I use ''Pokemons'' because It never really fit with me before. How can singular and Plural be the same. it is like ''why is building called building when it is already built?'' ------------------------ Afternoon, Viridian forest One of the most famous forests in the Kanto region. It houses many bug-type Pokemons which includes Caterpie line, Weedle line, Pidgey, angry Fearows and even rare Scyther. There were lush green grasses and bulky trees. The road from Viridian forest to Pewter city was small and rocky with many annoying obstacles like fast-flowing rivers and dangerous wild Pokemons. In the forest, laying on the back of a tree and eating lunch was a blond coloured hair boy around 13 years age with his 2 Pokemons Pidgey and Zubat. This trainer''s name is Bruno Welts. The same Bruno Welts who lost the Pokemon battle with Axel and left his Shedinja. One of the most striking features of his little guy was his eyes. It contained lots of hunger. Hunger for power and status. Hunger to be the best Pokemon trainer. And hunger for vengeance. Burno''s childhood was not as normal as one would expect. It was filled with thrones and disappointed faces. Bruno came from one of the poorest families in the region. He does not remember from what city he belonged to and frankly, he didn''t even care. His mother used to clean other people''s houses and his father worked at a bakery. The pay was very less to even put food on the table. They had 2 sons, Bruno being the youngest, which made the financials even harder. His father was an alcoholic and there use to be multiple fights in the house at night. Every night Bruno would pray to Arceus that he would live another day cause of all those beatings that he and his brother had to go through. One day in a fit of drunken rage, his father drove a knife to his mother''s heart. His father was sent to jail and his brother and him to a separate orphanage. Bruno was only 4 years old at that time. Life in the orphanage was also not a good cookie. As Bruno was not literally an orphan, he was discriminated¡­ by his peers. The constant bullying in the orphanage and the beating of this father in the past made him believe that, ''oh, so this is how life really is''. He didn''t even know what a normal life was. What would you expect from a kid who is not even 10 years old. Until he figured it out one day. One day, when he was around 7 years old, the bullying was very extreme to the point that his rib cage was broken. He then got sent to a hospital, where a doctor by the name Alice took care of him. Alice checked him, she found out that, the boy was badly abused with multiple wounds, cuts and bruises. She complained to the orphanage and took care of him for a month until he was healed fully. The love she showed, shocked him. At first, he could not even understand what she was doing. ''Why is she making me food? Are food suppose to be this warm? It tastes better this way¡­. So this is how it feels to wear clean clothes¡­. Wow, now my stomach does not hurt, I guess eating a lot of food does that to you'' Multiple things startled him at first. Then he saw other patients and how their parents and relatives treated them. And finally, he realized, that he had been treated like shit. He was treated worse than slaves. He was abused, physically and mentally. He then started to hate. Hate the world and all the people. The first spark of vengeance ignited within him. Though the doctor complained to the orphanage but due orphanage having a good connection to higher places, there were no punishment. Alice the doctor wanted to adopt the boy but she was not able to. Bruno was sent back to the orphanage and the bullying continued. Since the complaint was registered due to Bruno, the caretakers also treated him like crap. But he endured. He endured so that he could unleash it all at the same time. He had already thought what he wanted to do. Through his suffering he knew that only power matters. Only powerful people could do anything they want. There is nothing like black and white or equality or human rights. Those things are only for people with power to decide. So, he wanted to become powerful. He wanted to have a high social status. And there is only one way to get it that he knew of. That was becoming the best Pokemon trainer there is. Fast forward to the present, "Pidgey, Zubat, it is time for Pokemon battle now. We fought with 5 Pokemon trainers in this forest but only managed to win 3. This is not bad but I want to be the best. And I know you guys want the same. So we will train more, crush those peasants" Bruno said. "Piii!" "Zubat" . When they were walking, Bruno started thinking about the first battle he had with a silver hair boy named Axel. He lost that battle terribly. At that battle, he also left Shedinja. He didn''t feel bad about doing it even one bit. He wanted to be the most powerful trainer there is. He had to show to the kids that bully him, the caretaker that treated him like shit and the whole world how an orphan who came from a broken family with broken bones could dominate the world. He cannot do that with a weak-willed Pokemon like Shedinja. Shedinja was never good at battle and when he looked at Shedinja he felt pity. He didn''t want to feel that for his Pokemon so he left him. He also remembered that he didn''t pay Axel after he lost the fight. He thought he would pay him if he gets a chance to meet Axel in future. After walking for half and hour, they found something..or some one. It was a bipedal, insectoid Pok¨¦mon. It was primarily green with thin, cream-colored sections between its head, thorax, and abdomen. It had narrow eyes and three points on the back of its somewhat reptilian head. Its forearms consist of large, white scythes, which it uses for hunting as well as fighting. On its t.h.i.g.hs are spikes of fur, and it had three clawed toes on its large feet. Two pairs of cream-colored wings extend from its back. It was Scyther. When Bruno came near him, Scyther immediately noticed him and became ready for fight. Scythers are proud warrior Pokemons. They talk with their fist and they have their warrior honor. This is what Burno always liked about Pokemon like Scyther. Bruno immediately said, "I need a strong Pokemon like you to dominate the world. If you lose this battle, you will have to follow me. Will you accept?" "Scy.." Scyther nodded. "Since you look so powerful, you don''t mind me using 2 Pokemons right?¡­ let''s do it, Pidgey, Zubat" Bruno said smiling¡­ Scyther didn''t care about that. It had its warrior''s pride. Even if hundreds of Pokemons came, it will fight. "Pidgey, use whirlwind, Zubat you use wing attack" said Bruno. Pidgey started to flap its wings rapidly and a huge wind came to be. The wind was moving at a rapid pace and Scyther who was in the air was having difficulty flying. Taking that advantage, Zubat came sneaking, with its wings shining with white light. It was ''Wing attack''. But Scyther countered the move with ''Protect''. Scyther whole body glowed and the move didn''t have any effect. At the mean time, Scyther use ''Furry cutter''. Its scythes slashed at Zubat and Zubat was hit. "Pidgey, quickly use gust on Scyther" Bruno said immediately. ''Gust'' came flying toward Scyther and the Pokemon dogged it. At that time, ''Furry cutter'' had hit 2 times already. ''Furry cutter'' was an attack that increases its power, the more successive hit it lands. Though it only connected 2 times, Zubat was hurt cause this Scyther seemed to be on much higher level. Bruno seeing Zubat changed his strategy. "Zubat use confuse ray till it hits and Pidgey continue with Whirlwind" "Pii" "Zu.. Zubat!" This was a deadly combination. ''Whirlwind'' made Scyther difficult to fly and if ''Confuse ray'' hits, the battle will be difficult. Scyther could have flew away and hidden behind tall trees but its pride didn''t let it do so. It started dogging ''confuse ray'' and rapidly advance towards Zubat. After some time it was hit with ''confuse ray''. This move of Zubat was very well trained by Bruno and it affected Scyther badly. Pidgey then used ''Wing attack'' and Zubat used ''Swift'' on Scyther. Both of them connected perfectly. Scyther was hit and fell to the ground. But it stood right back up. It was still confused. These 2 duo were frustrating Scyther. It then did the most amazing thing. It closed its eyes and then started ''sword dance''. Pidgey and Zubat continued to attack, but this time Scyther dozed it while using ''sword dance''. ''Sword dance'' raises the attack of the user by 2 stages. If used effectively it could be very dangerous. When Pidgey came with another ''wing attack'', Scyther used ''frustration''. It used all of its frustration on Pidgey. Seeing that the attack would connect, Bruno said "Pidgey use bide". ''Frustration'' hit Pidgey when it was using ''Bide'' with ''Sword dance''. This move critically injured Pidgey. Though Scyther had closed its eyes, it was still confused. So it used ''gust'', a long range attack. It also hit Pidgey. But before that, Pidgey had already used Roost to recover some of its HP. After that, Pidgey finally used ''Bide''. The double reversal of 2 attacks of Scyther with ''sword dance'' on was a game-changing move. And it fell to the ground with a thud. Dust flew out and nobody knew what was its condition. Pidgey immediately fainted after it used Bide. Taking 2 attacks was too much for it. After the dust cleared, you could see a green silhouette still standing with heavy breathes. Yes, Scyther was still not down. At the final movement, it had learned ''Endure''. Pidgey had already fainted, so Zubat finished it with ''Wing attack'' and Bruno caught it with Pokeball. After catching this Pokemon, Bruno had a smile on his face. Who would have known that the story of this partnership will echo as ''Scizor the prideful, and Bruno the ruthless'' one day. Chapter 27 - Pokemon Stats A/N:- I was going to publish this chapter on Tuesday but I did it in Monday. so the next chapter would be released on Thursday or Friday depending on the country you are residing. My Patreeon would be activated from Sunday, so I hope you guys donate and help me. There will be additional chapters for those who pay in patreeon so you are gaining something from it. ------------------ It had been a month from the day he met MEW. He had an appointment to meet Dr. Akihabara from Matcha city but the problem was already solved by MEW. So, he had no reason to visit Dr. Akihabara now. But he still planned to meet Dr. Akihabara. There were 2 reasons for it. 1. He could not really reveal that he met MEW and the problem was solved. If he did then, many problems may appear. He wanted to keep the encounter with MEW a secret. 2. He didn''t really have anything to do now. He could not challenge gym leaders as of now. Gym leaders in anime and games are very much weaker than compared to real life. Every Gym leaders are at least master trainers (see ranks of trainers in auxiliary volume for more info). It is not like you could challenge Brock with level 12 Pidgey. The most powerful gym leader of Kanto region now in existence is Cerulean gym headed by Kaiyo kasumi who is Misty''s dad (Misty is not even born yet). For a trainer to challenge at the Indigo League, a trainer must have 8 badges. A. 2 badges in which gym leader will fight as an intermediate trainer (using 3 rare ranked Pokemons) B. 3 badges in which gym leader will fight as an advanced trainer (using at least 1 elemental ranked Pokemon) C. At least 3 badges in which gym leader will fight as a master trainer (using at least 1 Pseudo- King ranked Pokemon) Axel now only had 1 rare ranked Pokemon which was Gogoat and it was not even a fighting type. This Gogoat does not like to fight and just want to chill as f.u.c.k by giving milk. So, it would take a lot of time for him to challenge his first gym badge. So, now his focus was to train his Pokemons as hard as he could and he had already come with a training plan for them. He now had 5 Pokemons. 1. Nidoran 2. Shedinja 3. Gogoat 5. Charmander Gogoat does not fight so he had only 4 Pokemon that could battle. Nidoran had learned around 12 moves and Shedinja had learned 8 moves. He now wanted to just increase their proficiency in these moves and level those moves up. For Weedle and Charmander, he came up with a different plan. But more on that later. He also wanted to increase their proficiency in battling together. In the wild, there are many hidden dangers and combining their powers with the best moves could come in handy. It took him nearly a month to reach Matcha city and he trained all of his Pokemons. After a month of training in the forest with multiple Pokemons every day, the powers of his Pokemons have increased exponentially. Nidoran and Shedinja are at least 3 times stronger than before. Their stats are as follows: ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon name :- Shedinja (Age- 1.6 years) Pokemon Nickname :- Marcus Hidden ability :- None Potential :- Red * Health :- 20/30 (Hp cannot be increased in any way) Attack :- F* IVs :- 3* EVs :- 7* Agility :- E IVs :- 10* EVs :- 10* Defense :- F IVs :- 0 EVs :- 0 Sp. Atk :- E* IVs :- 6* EVs :- 8* Sp. Def :- F IVs :- 0 EVs :- 0 Moves :- 1. Hypnosis (Lvl 6)* 3. Harden (Lvl 10 max) 4. Shadow sneak (Lvl 4)* 5. Endure (Lvl 3)* 6. Dream eater (Lvl 6)* 7. Tackle (Lvl 2)* 8. Agility (Lvl 3)* 9. Gravity (5%)* Cores :- 1. Ghost (1%) ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª This change in Shedinja was very good. One of the things that surprised Axel was that Shedinja''s potential increased from Orange (Normal) to Red (Advanced). He had heard about the increase in potential about Pokemons but they are very rare occurrence. His sp. Attack increased and his moves also level up a bit. Axel focused on Shedinja move ''agility'' more, but its level was only 3. The reason for that was ''Agility'' is a psychic type move. Though Shedinja learns it, Shedinja is not a psychic-type Pokemon. ''Agility'' is a god-level move. Of course, if it is practiced and used well enough. The concept of agility is to relax and lighten one''s body to increase speed. One interesting thing about agility is it is the only move that only increases speed and does not effect the user negatively in any way. Moves like ''dragon dance'' increases attack and speed. Moves like ''Ominous wind'' increases all of the user stats. But ''Agility'' only increases speed. The advantage of that is, it put very little stress on Pokemon''s body. Moves like ''Dragon dance'' and ''Agility'' are temporary boost and it put pressure on Pokemon''s body. Since ''Agility'' only increases speed, the pressure is far less and more concentrated on only speed. So ''Dragon dance'' may increase both speed and attack, but as ''Agility'' only increases speed, the increase is way higher than the former. ''Agility'' also does not negatively affect Pokemon. For example, moves like ''Autotomize'' increase speed but the user had to shed a part of its body to do it. So, in terms of speed, ''Agility'' is a god-level move. But not many trainers use it. Cause first, ''Agility'' is hard to train. Since it is a psychic move, it is extra hard. And the result of ''Agility'' does not show until the Pokemon fully masters the move (Lvl max). So not many trainers prefer this move. The opportunity cost of it is very high. But Axel wanted to capitalize on this. Another shocking thing about Shedinja was, it started to learn ''Gravity''. Now, very few Pokemon could learn it and Shedinja is not one of them. ''Maybe one of its parents could use the move'' Axel thought. Gravity is also a psychic type move so it is hard to master. And since Shedinja normally does not learn it, it would be extra hard. But if Axel could max out, ''gravity'' and ''agility'' , with its ''wonder guard'' ability, Shedinja would be untouchable. Now looking at Nidoran status ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon name :- Nidoran (Age- 5 months) Ability :- Poison point Hidden ability :- Sheer force (Locked) Potential :- Purple Health :- 140/140 Attack :- D* IVs :- 19* EVs :- 13* Agility :- C* IVs :- 9* EVs :- 10* Defense :- C* IVs :- 5* EVs :- 0 Sp. Atk :- D* IVs :- 15* EVs :- 10* Sp. Def :- E+* IVs :- 3* EVs :- 0 2. Sucker punch (Egg move) 3. Venom drench (Egg move) (Lvl 2)* 4. Tackle (Lvl 10)* 5. Poison sting (Lvl 3)* 6. Peck (Lvl 3) 7. Focus energy(Lvl 6)* 8. Horn Attack (Lvl 7)* 9. Rest (Lvl 4)* 10. Bite (Lvl 4)* 11. Quick Attack (Lvl 2)* 12. Sludge Bomb (Lvl 10)* ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Now this improvement was very interesting. This showed the difference between potential. Though Nidoran trained less than Shedinja, its improvement was more than the latter. Shedinja still trained at night, though it never revealed it to Axel. But Nidoran slept at night. All of Nidoran''s moves have leveled up except for ''Sucker punch'' and ''Peck''. The reason for that is, Nidoran could not stand on 2 legs now so training ''Sucker punch'' would be useless now. Axel didn''t know how it had learned this move. Maybe it was cause, it was an egg move. Axel trained Nidoran in ''Horn attack'' so he really didn''t care about ''Peck''. Listening to Mew''s advice, Axel focused on Nidoran''s body stats too. So, all of the Body stats of Nidoran had increased. If he wanted Nidoran to learn from the book ''ancient way to power'' by refining their muscles, then their bones and finally their blood vessels, then its body stats first must be raised to an acceptable level. Axel thought to raise Nidoran''s body stats at least to B before cultivating poison core. He didn''t want to take the risk. IVs and EVs are 2 of the many things that add to Pokemon power. IVs, or Individual Values, help determines a Pokemon''s stats. A Pokemon with high attack IVs will end up doing more damage than a Pokemon with lower attack IVs, even if they''re the same level. IVs could be increased through training. EVs, or Effort Values, are bonus stats that your Pokemon will gain from defeating specific types of Pokemon. The highest IVs that a Pokemon could reach on each type of Body stats is 31 for each of them and the highest total EVs stat that a Pokemon could reach is 510 with the highest of 255 in one stat. But Axel found out that it differs depending on the potential of Pokemon. For example, no matter how hard he trained Shedinja in IV for Agility it didn''t increase from 10. Since Shedinja had a Red potential, that was its limit. But Nidoran didn''t have the problem for increasing its IV on sp.attck up to 15 and it was not even the limit for it. But the most shocking increment of power of any of his Pokemon would be Charmander. Since, Charmander''s potential is at the top (Since Axel assumes that Void (Divine) potential would be only of Arceus, cause Mew''s Potential was only Semi-Void) with Black (Monstrous), its increase in power is way more than Nidoran. Its stats are¡­. Chapter 28 - Pokemon Stats 1 A/N: I felt that the previous chapter was not very interesting for you viewers. But I want this novel to have a good story line and world back ground. so not every Chapter will be hard battles and catching new Pokemon. if I do that, the story will not be interesting at all. but these chapters will build a good story line which will be helpful. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon name :- Charmander (Age- 1 month) Pokemon Nickname :- None Ability :- Blaze (Locked) Hidden ability :- Solar Power (Locked) Potential :- Black Health :- 90/90 Attack :- E IVs :- 4 EVs :- 0 Agility :- F+ IVs :- 0 EVs :- 0 Defense :- E IVs :- 8 EVs :- 0 Sp. Atk :- E++ IVs :- 5 EVs :- 0 Sp. Def :- F IVs :- 4 EVs :- 0 Moves :- 1. Dragon dance (Egg move) (Lvl 2) 2. Dragon rush (Egg move) (Lvl 2) 3. Dragon Energy (Egg move) 5. Ember (Lvl 5) ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª It had 3 egg moves which were all dragon type moves. This was very beneficial. Charmander could learn ''dragon dance'' and ''dragon rush'' but ''dragon energy'' was something new. ''Dragon energy'' is a type of move that has higher power if the user''s Hp is more. This move converts the user''s life force and attacks the opponent. Axel didn''t train Charmander on this move cause it could be very deadly and since it is still a baby, he thought to train this move after some time. Besides that, the improvement on Charmander was very high. It should be noted that it had only been 2 weeks since Charmander started his training. And it didn''t even train seriously like Nidoran or Shedinja. Since it is still a baby, it doesn''t like to train. It just liked to sleep, eat and pull pranks on its fellow Pokemons. This was one of the downsides of having a baby Pokemon. They don''t take training seriously. And Axel could not even blame the poor bastard since it was still a baby. Axel had the same problem with Nidoran before. But its stats have increased massively. This shows the difference between the potential of a Pokemon. Now coming onto Weedle ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon name :- Weedle (Age- 3 months) Ability :- Shield Dust Hidden ability :- None Potential :- Red Health :- 45/45 Attack :- E+ IVs :- 5 EVs :- 0 Agility :- E IVs :- 0 EVs :- 0 Defense :- F++ IVs :- 0 EVs :- 0 Sp. Atk :- E+ IVs :- 7 EVs :- 0 Sp. Def :- E IVs :- 2 EVs :- 0 2. String Shot (Lvl 4) 3. Bug Bite (Lvl 3) ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª This was something new that he didn''t realize. Though Weedle had only Red Potential, its stats grew faster. Its body stats grew at an alarming rate including its moves level. This was manly cause Weedle was a bug type Pokemon. Bug type Pokemon grows faster than other Pokemon. Axel had not thought of that before. It looked like Weedle could evolve after some days, but Axel wanted to hold on to its evolution for a bit. There were 2 reasons for it. The first reason was for its body stats to grow. As Mew had said before, increasing the body stats were important. Pokemons stats grew faster at first and after the evolution, it takes time for them to grow. So Axel wanted to capitalize on this. The second reason was, Axel wanted Weedle to learn ''electro web''. This is the move that, Weedle can learn only in its pre evolution stage. Axel also noticed that, this Weedle of Axel was a bit powerful than other Weedle Axel had encountered in the wild. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ''Knock¡­ knock.. Knock''.. "Wait a second¡­ I m coming" said a man. After few seconds "Just give me a minute.. I am packing things of" said the voice again. After a couple of minutes, which Axel felt like an eternity, the door opens. A fat man, with uncombed hair wearing a white lab coat with round spectacles, came into view. "And who might you be young man. I don''t think that I have met you before" said the man. "Hello, Dr. Akihabara, my name is Axel Blaze. Nurse joy from Gringey city might have told you about me" said Axel raising his hand for a handshake. "Oh!! Yes, Clarie did told you about me come in.. Come in.. Make yourself at home. Though this is my lab, not my home.. Haha" said Dr. Akihabara shaking Axel''s hand. Dr. Akihabara invited him to seat and offer him a drink. Axel only wanted to drink water as he was thirsty with his adventure from the forest. After some small talk, Dr. Akihabara asked, "So Clarie told me, your Nidoran had some problem. She sent me the details of the report. Would you mind me checking him again." "No problem. That is the region that I came here actually. Though Nidoran looks fine to me. I just want to make sure, that all" Axel said, calling out Nidoran from his Pokeball "Hmm.. Your Nidoran seems very healthy. It seems a bit bigger than normal Nidoran." Said Akihabara observing Nidoran closely. Yes, due to Nidoran''s diet from the recipe, it had grown healthy and it had become a bit bigger than normal counterparts. Nidoran''s normal height is around 0.5 meters but now its height is around 0.7 meters. This is definitely a good improvement. After checking Nidoran for about 30 minutes, Akihabara put down his stethoscope and said "Your Nidoran doesn''t seem to have any problem. I double-checked just to make sure. It is very healthy. Seems like the problem Nurse joy mentioned seem to settle on its own. I feel bad for you to come all the way here." "Oh, I m just glad that it is okay. It is worth the trip. After all, Nidoran is my first Pokemon." Axel said. "Well, I think you will gain something coming to this part of the region. Matcha city may not be a high valued city but it is a peaceful one. Why don''t you stroll around the city in the afternoon? There is a hotel near the lab so you could stay there." Replied the doctor. "Oh¡­ I forgot something. Mr.Koga sent a message to you. He tells you to head to Pallet town. He wants you to meet Prof. Oak there. He said you know the reason for it. And yes¡­ he also advised you to challenge a gym down the road. At your level, you may not win the battle, but it will be a valuable experience for you." Said the doc again. ''So, he wants me to meet Oak to get his approval. This will be hard. Oak is the Pokemon master. It will be hard to get his approval. I need to speed up the training of my Pokemons'' thought Axel. "Thank you doctor for the info. .. I will be going now. I want to explore the place" said Axel. Akihabara also said his goodbyes and they separated. Chapter 29 - Notice Again.. I know.. But this is Important Something has happened in my life. I am going to resign from my job to start my own new company... relating to accountancy, consultancy, and audit. So, I would not be writing this novel for at least up to the time my company comes to a stable position, at least financially, which will take up to 3-5 months. I would be starting my company after 1 month. 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(Readers, "There he goes again...") Meet you after 3-5 months. And Please if you have any thoughts, comment on this chapter. I love hearing your thoughts. Chapter 30 - Notice.. unheard quotes Sorry, but this is not about pokemon. I just created a new novel... basically a short story... ''unheard quotes''. These are some of the unheard quotes of unheard writers. I will be updating regularly.. since it only takes a minute of my time for it, unlike this fanfiction. But mostly I am advertising this on for my twitter account which is ''unheardquotes2''.... So support me on this twitter account.. if you guys are interested.... and also too Chapter 31 - First Loss ---------- I am back.. Though my schedule is still very tight. i thought to release chapters from now on. I previously planned to create a ******* account and earn some money out of this but turns out I will be very busy from now on and could not regularly release chapters with extra chapters on *******. So I thought I would just post this on and you guys could support me on my Paypal account. You guys to donate me on my Paypal account which is :- ''[email protected]'' Yes with 2 ''.coms''. I planned to buy a motor bike which would cost me around $6000 including the taxes with your support (the taxes here in Nepal is very high at 300%) hope you guys would support me on this. I plan to complete this novel. i will publish around 1-2 chapter a week. Enjoy the chapter -------------------------------------------- Matcha city was not an overcrowded city but it had its perks. It was really peaceful and with ''Rodon sea'' connecting the trade routes, people could enjoy delicious foods. Axel was relaxing in a beach with all of his Pokemons doing their own things. Nidoran seem to be playing on the beach as it was the first time it had seen it. Shedinja was meditating taking full advantage of the beautiful sound of sea waves. Weedle seem to be eating. Gogoat seem to be sunbathing, minding its own business like a boss. And Charmander was pranking other trainer''s Squirtle. It was chasing Charmander with a water gun. ''That is a funny sight'', Axel thought laying down on a beach. But soon something unexpected happened. Charmander attacked Squirtle with ''ember'' and Squirtle dodged it. The ember landed on the jeans of Squirtle'' trainer. ''Charrrr..'' Shouted Charmander hurriedly and started running towards Axel. Squirtle used ''water gun'' on its trainer to control the damage. But the damage had already been done. The damage was done to the trainer''s pride. "What the f.u.c.k???" the trainer shouted. Axel could see a man, probably in his late 20s, with a burnt pant near his crotch taking heavy steps towards him, angrily. The man had a mustache and a long brown beard. Because of ''water gun'' the man looked like a drenched crow. It looked really funny. Axel had to cough a few times so that he would not laugh. "Hey kid, look what your Pokemon did to my pants? Do you have anything to say about it?" said the man angrily. "I am sorry about that but he is just a baby Pokemon. I hope you forgive him?" said Axel in a polite tone. "Char¡­ Charmander" Charmander was hiding behind its trainer''s legs by this point cause the man looked scary. "Why should I forgive it? Don''t they teach you how to control you Pokemon? Huh.. People like you make the reputation of trainers like crap. Compensate me¡­ give me 10000 Poke dollars now and I will think about forgiving you" said the man with pride as if he is Mother Teresa. "10000??? That thing doesn''t cost even cost 200 Poke dollars. Why are you ripping me off? You talk about trainer''s reputation and you bully people?" Axel was angry now. Granted it was Charmander''s mistake but this man was clearly out of line. "10000 Poke dollars is not for pants.. It is for my reputation. What if my fans see this, take my pic, and post it on the internet ? I would be a laughing stock. 10000 is a very low price, I should have asked for a million Poke dollars" shouted the man. "Yeah you would have fans if Satan goes to heaven. I challenge you to a battle. If I win, you will apologize and if you win I will give you 10000 Poke dollars" said Axel. The man didn''t know who Satan was but he knew it was an insult. So he readily accepted the challenge. "It will be 2 on 2 Pokemon battle. The trainer could change their Pokemon in between. Let''s start then¡­ you are up Squirtle" "Sqqqirtleee¡­" shouted the Pokemon with a battle stance. "My name is Axel. What is yours?" . "Hump.. You don''t deserve to know my name" said the man. "Let''s do this Marcus" said Axel¡­ "Shedinja¡­" said Marcus and got ready. "Marcus, use ''gust''" said Axel. "Shed.." "Squirtle ''withdraw'' " said the man. Squirtle came back to its hard shell. ''Gust'' didn''t have any major impact on it. It just flew for a couple of meters. "Marcus, use ''shadow sneak'' and then ''Tackle'' immediately," said Axel in a hurry. "Squirtle, dodge it and use water gun". This Squirtle was fast. Shadow sneak didn''t connect and Shedinja was hit with ''water gun'' instead. But, alas, ''water gun'' didn''t have any impact on Shedinja due to its broken ability. Without any instruction from Axel, Shedinja used hypnosis. This was a move they had discussed before. If ''wonder guard'' ability comes to play then Shedinja will immediately use ''hypnosis'' as an unexpected move. Squirtle realizing this used ''withdraw'' immediately but it was also a baby Pokemon. It didn''t know that ''hypnosis'' is a sound wave move and would affect it even if it used ''withdraw''. Level 6 ''hypnosis'' was too much for a baby Pokemon, so it felt drowsy and came out of its hard shell. "Marcus, use ''hypnosis'' again, then ''dream eater'' and finish it with ''tackle'' " said Axel. Second hypnosis made the poor Pokemon in a complete sleep state, ''dream eater'' ate almost a quarter of its health and tackle was the final blow. "Come back Squirtle, you did a good job. Though you are young, you seem to be a capable trainer. So I will fight you with my main team. Go Venasaur!!" said the man. A large squat, quadrupedal Pok¨¦mon with bumpy, blue-green skin came into view. Its height was double that of a normal Venusaur. It''s height was almost 4 meters. That is more than 13 feet tall. When it emerged, the beach started to change. Grass and small plants sprouted covering the entire battle field making the battle area grassy terrain. This was not an uncommon ranked Pokemon, neither rare or elemental one but a full fledged Pseudo- king ranked Pokemon. "Venusaurrrr¡­.!!!" it roared. The sound of the roar was so huge and intimidating that Axel''s heart skipped a bit. The Pokemon had a threating aura like it had been to thousands of bloody battles. Pseudo-king ranked Pokemon could change the environment to their liking passively like what Venusaur did. This was the first time that Axel had even seen a Pseudo-ranked Pokemon. He already knew that he was going to lose but he would not give up that fast. He chose Shedinja once again cause Shedinja was immune to most of the attacks and most importantly it was immune to grass and normal type attacks. That was what Venusaur were known for. Seeing the expression of Axel, the man smirked and said " you mess with Venu family, you get the thrones.. Venusaur, use vine whip and bring it closer." "Marcus, use ''agility'' and dodge it fast" shouted Axel. But Shedinja was not as fast as Venusaur. Though Venusaur looked extremely big, but its ''Vine whip'' was as fast as lightning. It caught Shedinja in a flash and carried it towards itself. Though Shedinja was not hurt by ''Vine whip'' cause of its ''wonder guard'' ability it was still caught and could not resist. "Venusaur, now use ''bite''" "F.u.c.k!! Marcus use ''shadow sneak'' and get out of there¡­ use ''hypnosis''" said Axel holding his heart on a stake. ''Bite'' is a dark type move and is super effective against Shedinja. Since Shedinja had very low health, it would die if the move connects. Shedinja blurred and immediately move towards the shadow of Venusaur, arriving its back side. Since it was a beach on a sunny day, the only shadow there was, was of Venusaur, so it could not run very far away. The moment Venusaur turned, it immediately used ''hypnosis'' with full power. "Saurrrr¡­" roared the green giant again. Yeah¡­ ''hypnosis'' didn''t have any effect on it. Axel was stunned. The resistance of this humongous thing was extraordinary. The difference between an unranked Pokemon and Pseudo-king was starting to show now. At this time the trainer from Venu family had a dark smile. He said "Hidden Power" and then Venusaur caught Shedinja in ''Vine whip'' again brought it closer. The flower on the backside of it glowed and an orange flame shot Shedinja in a point-blank range. "No!!¡­." Axel said dropping down his knees. The power of ''hidden power'' varies for every Pokemon. It could be of any type except for Normal or fairy move. This ''hidden power'' was a flamethrower and Shedinja had 2 times damage for it. Coupled with its low health and hit at a point-blank range, it was uncertain whether it was alive or not. Axel felt that he had killed Shedinja. Shedinja had never lost a battle when it began its journey with him. Heck, it had never been hurt even once. Due to its ''wonder guard'' ability it was immune to most of the attacks and Axel was very selective of choosing its opponents. But Axel started to feel c.o.c.ky and proud when using Shedinja and started to take risks like this. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Endure has leveled up to 4 Ding! Endure has leveled up to 5 Ding!.... .... Ding! Endure has leveled up to 11 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª The mixture of dust and grass cleared slowly and the man threw something to Axel. "Use this full restore fast" he said. Axel caught the full restore and immediately used it in Shedinja. Poor Shedinja was barely breathing. Though Endure is a cheat move for Shedinja cause it would have an extra life cause of its low health. But that was an attack by a Pseudo-king Pokemon at a point blank range and ''endure'' was only level 3 before. So, Shedinja was lucky that it was alive. It took, 10 minutes for Shedinja to stabilize and Axel used another full restore on it given by the man, cause Axel didn''t have any. Though in-game, full restore could fully heal a Pokemon, in reality, it was not the case. Axel also calmed down a bit after this. When facing a Pseudo-king Pokemon, he was not calm and had taken a rash decision. He still wanted to battle though he knew he could not win and Shedinja was already out of danger. He knew he had to face this to know his limit. "You are on Nidoran" "Nidooo¡­" Nidoran came into the battle field. Though it was frightened, it was also angry cause this giant had hurt its friend. Seeing such a reaction from Nidoran, Axel became emotional. ''You have grown well Nido.'' Axel thought. "Nidoran, you the combination of tackle, quick attack and chip away" Axel said. ''Quick attack'' increases the speed, ''tackle'' would hit hard cause it was already level 10 and ''Chip away'' would look for an opening and strike continuously. This was the best strategy he could come up with. Nidoran was using every thing it got and hitting Venusaur with this combination. But Venusaur was not even slightly hurt. This was not cause it was very high level but the grassy terrain was passively healing Venusaur. After 2 minutes of the combo Nidoran was starting to get tired. "Nidoran use ''venom drench'' and then ''horn attack''." Axel changed the strategy. Though Venusaur was a poison type Pokemon, poison moves would also have an effect on it. But the minute Venom drench connected, Axel knew that it had zero effect on the green giant. This was cause Nidoran was very low leveled. "Okay Venusaur, lets end this. Finish up with razor leaf" "Venuu.." Nidoran was hit with razor sharp leaf, was flown dozen of meters back. It had fainted and the battle was over. Axel ran up to Nidoran to use hyper potion. This was the first battle that Nidoran and Axel have ever lost. Chapter 32 - Another Beginning Blackthorn city, johto It was a beautiful morning in a beautiful city. The sheer size of the city would not do justice to what was shown in anime and games. There were lots of well-constructed buildings lining up to start their business. This was a commercial market of the city. It was one of the most crowded cities in all over johto. At the east of the market region lies the residential area of the city and towards the north lies a castle. Castle may not be an appropriate word for it. It was a mixture of a castle and a cave. There were three towers covering the castle and on top of each castle was a beautiful life-like carved statue of a dragon with wings. In the middle of the castle was a huge lake and before it was a massive gate with a design of a red-colored dragon. It was an impressive sight to behold, at least to the first-timers. The inside of the castle was very luxurious with training rooms, kitchen, bedrooms, dining hall, meeting room, and finally a throne room. The throne chair was very unique with metal carved design of, of course, dragons. An old man was sitting on the throne with his back straight. He had white hair with medium size beard, muscular arms, and a fitting body. This old man was the lord of Blackthorn city named Dragon. Blackthorn city had a huge history with dragon-type Pokemon. It also had a dragon-type Pokemon gym and one of the toughest gyms to beat. So being the lord of the city, he holds an important position in the Kanto region. The room had dim lights but that does not mean that it was lonely. Across Dragon, were 2 youths standing. One was a beautiful girl in her prime with blue hair, tall height, and impressive body figures. Next to the girl was a young boy around 15 years old, with red spiky hair. The name of the boy was Lance. "Ohh!! Today was a feast. It was a beautiful party and all of them showed up. Reminds me of my time when I was young" said Dragon laughing and coughing with a proud look on his face. "Once again, I want to formally congratulate you Clair for being the 7th gym leader of Blackthorn Gym. You have earned my respect and everyone too. Take a day off or two." "Thank you uncle, I would hold our reputation as one of the best gyms in the Johto region. But I have to leave now, I am a bit tired." Said Clair. " Well, we may be the first here but we are still behind the Cerulean gym in the Kanto region (Misty''s gym when his father was the gym leader) Damn, when is that old man going to retire? Alright, take a good rest, you have earned it. And Lance please remain for the time. I have something to discuss with you" replied Dragon. Clair excused herself with a polite nod and left. She gave a glance to her younger brother once and slowly walked from the room. "Lance, you might be thinking why I have asked you here tonight?" Asked Dragon. "That has crossed my mind father. Is it about my training? I have done well and the instructor and sister have also approved of it" said Lance with a proud look on his face. But the look on the old man''s face was other than proud. It was serious and grim. "Lance it is time for you to start your journey!!." "But father, it is still 3 months till I am 15 years old. Why do I have to start soon? There are lots of things I need to do before I leave" "I know son. Our culture states that we start our journey at the age of 15 instead of 13. It is cause, dragons need time to grow than normal species and we, the family of dragon masters think the same about ourselves. But your time has come cause among your generation, you are the guy with the most talent and potential. You have the quality to become Champion one day maybe even Pokemon Master. You don''t want your future rivals to give you an edge do you?" Said Dragon. Lance comes from a family of dragon masters. Currently, his father, Dragon is the appointed dragon master. There can only be one dragon master and normally, those with more experience and power are chosen. Dragon served as the 6th gym leader of Blackthorn city for more than 2 decades and when he handed his position to his daughter 2 days ago, he became the dragon master. Lance always had huge respect for his father. The way he acts, his personality, and the way he treats his Pokemon always inspired him. So even though he wanted to celebrate his birthday before the journey, he knew his time had come. Lance was the pride of his family, being a talented guy and he had a knack for training and bonding with his Pokemon. So the family always had high hopes for him. Deep down he knew his father was right. So after thinking and deciding for a whole minute he came to his decision. "What you have said sounds right father. I will start my journey after a couple of days. And I don''t think I would have a rival that could match my talent at least in the Johto region. But I hear a girl name Cynthia is a prodigy and she is from the Sinnoh region." "Never underestimate anyone!!. You have not seen the world, there are many hidden dragons. This is the reason, I wanted you to start the journey sooner. You have to be tough. Now go back and prepare for your journey. And once again Never underestimate!!" But this time his father''s voice carried an aura, and aura of killing intent!!! Lance was shocked!. It was rare to see his father angry. His father''s mastery over dragon-type Pokemon was great. His father believed that dragons are the most intelligent creatures of all and they think when they act. His father, being a dragon maniac had copied this trait into his own nature. But since his father was so serious about it, he accepted the wise words of his father. After 3 days, It was early in the morning and Lance was going to start his journey today. He had all the things that he needed, money, potions, Pokeballs, sleeping bags, tent and food for the Pokemons and him. "Are you all ready, you didn''t miss anything right?" asked Clair. "I am okay. I have checked it 3 times already. Alright father, uncle, Dragonite, I guess I would meet you after I am strong enough." Said Lance waving his hand and getting ready to ride of Clair''s Dragonite. Clair was giving him a ride up to the forest to start the journey. "Remember Lance, Dragons are master of elements, they are Arcane. History tells us that the dragons are magic incarnate itself. Remember your training Lance, follow your dragon instinct and soar to the sky but never forget that this is your home and you are always welcome in it." Said Dragon. You might have expected Lance to be emotional or tear up a bit but he was not doing any of those things. His head was revolving on the new exciting adventure that was before him. Finally, after saying goodbyes Lance started his journey. The journey to becoming the best Dragon-type trainer. "You don''t think that you are a bit over your head? It was only around 3 months. Why didn''t you want him to wait for that time?" asked Lance''s uncle. "You know my reason, Sam. Oak seems to be thinking of accepting a disciple again and I don''t want any other to become Pokemon master of this generation. Lance has a talent for it so he must start his journey." "I don''t know why you are so scared about him. The guy is already old now. He may be the Pokemon Master and the most powerful trainer in existence now, but he is wearing off. Give it a few more years and his reign will end." "You don''t understand Sam. Oak only had 2 disciples till now. Both of them were Champions at one point in their time. You might be thinking that Red and Blue were just outstanding trainers and Oak was lucky. But you are wrong. You have never seen his power in his glory days, Sam. That still haunts me in my dream, the way he destroyed a whole region with just his Charizard and Dragonite. A human just should not be able to hold such power. Oak is something else." "So, Lance should start his journey now. He has to face the evils of this world. "Said Dragon. And this how, one of the Legends, the greatest dragon master began his journey Chapter 33 - Venu family "Wohh!! It is like a huge forest" mumbled Axel looking at the view. The place was very different then from the well-structured building on the outside. Axel was inside the training building of the Venu family. After Axel lost the battle, the man of Venu family felt pity for him. He felt that he bullied the young guy cause of his anger. So, as an apology, he invited Axel to Venu family''s main mansion which surprisingly was not very far away. It took around 2 hours for his car to reach there. Shedinja and Nidoran were getting checked up, just to make sure that everything is okay. "Ok.. You can get a tour of the mansion later. The leader wants to meet with you" said the man. "Why would your leader want to meet with me? Why am I here in the first place actually? You didn''t talk in the car about it." Replied Axel with another question. "The hell would I know why the leader wants to meet with you. I don''t know what goes in her head. I reported our fight to the leader and she decided to meet with you. Now come on, the leader doesn''t like to wait" said the man. "You still not going to tell me your name?" "No.." This was the main headquarter of Venu family. The family didn''t have lots of branches in the Kanto region. But Venu family was a power to be recognized. The land inside the castle was huge. Axel could not predict how vast the land and the properties were but it should be much larger than the biggest cities on Earth. There were training rooms, a medical hall, commercial centers, residential buildings, a trainer''s camp, a f.u.c.k.i.n.g school and a huge forest. They even had a Pokemon center and marts too. Famous buildings like Brew''d Awakening, league association, Pokemon traders, auctions were also present. This has changed the whole dynamics of the Pokemon world in Axel''s mind. In anime or games, the concept of starter families didn''t exist. Looking this, Axel was forced to assume that things are not as simple as it was in anime. He thought that he would have a competitive edge cause he knew about anime and games but now he was starting to realize that he could be wrong. It took around 25 minutes of continuous walking for them to reach their destination. The guy next to Axel didn''t even say the word and Axel didn''t mind. He was still worried about Shedinja but he already knew it was okay with no lasting damage. After going inside multiple doors, they finally reached the top floor of the building. The room was brightly lit and there was a huge round table inside. There were multiple chairs and only 1 person was sitting in the chair with all the chairs empty. The woman was around in her 40s with long curly hair, wearing a green shirt and blue jeans. She had a coat on top of her though it was not winter. The woman smiled and said "Oh, welcome young man to my humble adobe." Seeing the grin on her face, Axel was confident that this woman was the mother of this arrogant man. Cause she also had an arrogant aura covering her. But since this was one of the biggest families in the Kanto region, he decided to act politely. "Thank you, mam. But could I ask, why did you want to meet with me?" "Oh, a man of not many words. Well, I have heard about your fight with my son which lead me to think that you are a very capable trainer. So I would like you to extend an invitation to join our family. What do you say about that?" said the woman. "What?!!!¡­ What are you saying mom?" shouted the man. "Shut up, I am your leader when we are in this room. How many times have I told you this Richard? And this is the decision that I came up with after consulting with the elders. So keep quiet" said the woman. Axel was also shocked when he heard the proposal. He didn''t know why this man was shocked too but he frankly didn''t care. Getting along with Venu family would be a boon for him as he would have a powerful backer but he was already backed up by Koga. "Mam, before I ask anything about this invitation, I would have to tell you that, I am already backed up by Mr. Koga" said Axel. "Oh.. You don''t need to worry about that LAT thing. This and that are completely different things. You would just be a part of Venu family. You don''t have to change your surname if you are worried about it" "What benefits would I get joining your family and what do I have to do to get it?" Asked Axel. "The benefits are numerous like you could access our training room, the forest, and expert advice on training your Pokemon. You could also get some rare items and Pokemons, of course, you would have to pay for them but these items and Pokemons would of much higher quality than in the market. The duty would be, any quest of league association, any Pokemon or items you would want to sell to Pokemon traders, you would have to do it from Venu family. Venu family also has the branch of these associations and we get a certain benefit from them you see. And there are some missions that you would have to complete if you are tasked with it. The missions are rare to encounter so it would not affect your daily life and the final thing, from this day foreword you would be a part of Venu family" "So, if I ever wanted to leave the family, would I be able to do so?" Asked Axel. He was curious about this. Cause if it ever occurs to him that the benefits of joining Venu family, are lower than the duties he had to perform, he would leave the family. "You could, but there are some conditions that you would need to fulfill. First, there must be a valid reason to leave the family. It may be that the family is treating you harshly, or you are not receiving any benefit from it and so on. And of course, you would have to pay a huge price to leave the family. The price of that would be determined at that time. But I feel that you would benefit more from this transaction. The backing of the Venu family is not a small thing. You could ask for help from the family members at the time of need too." "I would have to think about it. You see it is not a small decision" Said Axel "It is ok. I didn''t expect you to answer now. You may leave now and give me your decision tomorrow. There is a guard outside the building. Your apartment has already been decided. He will guide you to there. And yes, my name is Angela" Axel gave a polite nod and went outside of the building. "Ok you may ask your questions now Richard" said Angela after Axel was outside the room. "What are you doing mother? We from Venu family have never accepted an outsider as a part of our family. Aren''t you the one who use to say about the importance of the blood of family? We are not ruffians like Toise and Zard family that would accept anyone to our family. What about our legacy, our secret training methods? Are we going to disclose that to the whole world now?" Richard was fuming with anger. He was shaking from anger when he said those words. His mother was never the m.a.t.u.r.e type of leader that one would expect but he never thought that she would do something like this. Hearing her son''s antics, she let out a sigh and said "I with elders have decided that we need to change our thinking. For years, we have hidden ourselves unlike the Toise and Zard family. We were the most powerful families before but now it doesn''t seem to be the case. Our influence is extremely low now compared to the two families. The strongest gym in the Kanto region belongs to Toise family (Cerulean gym) and Zard family controls the auction, so when it comes to items and Pokemons they are at the top. We only have this forest to our name but it may not be enough. We need to prepare for the future now Richard. Our influence is so low that people don''t even know that we exist. So we have decided to invite outsiders from now." "But mom, we are the most powerful family there is in the Kanto region. We have a Champion-ranked Pokemon. None of the other families have that." Said Richard in frustration. He was not liking this one bit. The thought of having an outsider in their family has never crossed his mind before this. Venu family may have the lowest influence in the Kanto region but he believed that they are the most powerful. "So what of it? My Venusaur maybe Champion ranked, but how long do you think I would be alive? 100 years? 200 years? After that, we would have nothing. The young members of our family are pitifully weak. Only you and few others have some talent. Not even all the elders are good. What do you think will happen after 200 years? Our family will disappear from existence. So we need to prepare for the future. It may be hard to adjust at first but I believe that we would rise once again. And you are forgetting our main mission. The mission of our family is not to be the most powerful. The mission of our family is ¡­.." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 34 - The Decision Axel was pacing up and down in his apartment. This thing to join the Venu family had scared him. He was scared cause of his family''s response. What would his mom and father think about it? Will they disown him when they hear that he was going to join another family? He was not actually worried about his family disowning him cause his family didn''t have much inheritance. But he was afraid they will stop talking to him. Thinking about it he called home. Tring!! Tring!!¡­ Tring!! Kachak. "Hello" said his uncle. "Hi uncle, it is me. How is everything going around there? Are mom and Athena ok? How about dad and you?" asked Axel. It was just so nervous that he was blurting out things that he would not normally say. "It is ok around here. What happened, you seem a bit tensed?" asked his uncle. Then Axel explained all about the proposal about the Venu family and being their member. He specifically mentioned that he would not have to change his surname of "Blaze". "Oh you don''t have to worry about it. If you think that is good for you, go ahead. Your mother and father are outside now but I know for sure that they would not mind. Being a part of their family is like a business transaction. I know about these things, it is not that serious. They see potential in you so they are investing in you. So go ahead. But remember, these families are crafty and when they see no benefits from you they would stop caring about you." A look of relief came over Axel when he heard it. He knew that it would not have mattered much but he was nervous at first. Then they talked about usual things for about 15 minutes and hung up the call. Then Axel thought about calling Koga. Angela had said that being a member of their family will not affect LAT but he wanted to make sure and he also wanted to know more about Venu family. He thought Koga would have some insights. Tring!! Tring!!¡­ Tring!! Kachak. "Hello. Axel¡­ how is life treating you? Being a while. How is your journey going" asked Koga. Axel then explained his doubts about the Venu family. "Venu family is accepting you as their part? That is the first time I have ever heard of it" said Koga being quite shocked. "What do you mean?" asked Axel. "Well, Venu family has been quite reserved about its matters. It is not like Toise or Zard family. Toise and Zard family accept outsiders as their part but Venu family has never done so. Its influence is very low compared to the two of them. What I know is that, though it doesn''t accept outsiders, it has a lot of secrets. There is a rumor that the leader of the family has a Champion ranked Pokemon. And it also has lots of secrets that the world doesn''t know. Otherwise why it would be one of the prominent families till now. Venu family accepting you must be the first case" "Well then, what do you suggest that I do?" "I think you should accept it. This must be the new move of Venu family, as its influence is quite low, it must be thinking of changing that. Since you are the first to get this chance, you will receive much more rewards and benefits compared to the other families. The benefits of low-level members of other families are not quite good. You will get a good bargain. But you will also be discriminated against in the family since you are the first outsider. You don''t have to worry about any bad thing happening to you other than that. The pride of Venu family will not let them do that, and you have me and Prof. Oak supporting you so you will be okay. Just put a condition that you will be treated fairly." "Prof. Oak is also supporting me now?" asked Axel. He had not heard of this news. If that was true then he may not need Venu family''s support either. "No, not completely. But he has his eyes on you and wants to test you. He says you to go to pallet town and you must at least try to battle 1 gym before that. But you must be prepared for that. You are not still strong enough and that old man will not recognize you now." Said Koga. After talking for few minutes, Axel hung up the phone. At the meeting room, Knock knock!! Knock knock!! "Come in" said Angela. "Ohh, young man, have you decided it then?" Asked Angela tapping her fingers on the table repeatedly. She honestly thought that he would come later in the morning and would take some more time, but he came in the evening. She was nervous too. If this guy doesn''t accept then it would be very hard for her to stir the elders again to find another outsider. Since all the elders have approved, she just wanted this to go with the flow. "Yes, I have decided to accept your invitation," said Axel with a determined look. A wide smile could be seen on Angela''s face. The tapping on the table has stopped at once. One of the conditions that she had mentioned to the elders was that only she would deal with the outsider before he accepts the proposal. Cause she knew that the elders were proud and had a big mouth. She didn''t want this deal to go out of hand. "But I have some questions and some conditions," Axel said. "Ohh. Ok then, let''s hear it" Angela was confident on whatever conditions he had, she could work out of them. "First, I have heard that Venu family never accepts an outsider. Have you ever accepted an outsider before this?" Axel asked. "No" "Then I want to know, what is your reason to accept me?" "sorry, I can not reveal it to you until you are part of the family." "You said, I would get lots of benefits if I am to be a part of the family. Can I know those in detail?" "No. You will know about it after you are part of the family," said Angela. Hearing that, Axel showed a displeased expression. He can''t know why he is accepted as a family, he cannot know the benefits, then why the hell would even accept this proposal. It is like going inside a black hole, you would not know where you would end up. Seeing his expression, Angela continued "The reason I cannot tell you about it, is the cause of the secrecy. See, our Venu family is very reserved compared to other families. There are some secrets of our family that are not revealed to the world and your question just touches these secrets. What I can assure you is that you will be treated well and if the answer to those previous questions, doesn''t satisfy you after becoming a part of the family, then you are free to not engage in the family business." Of course, that was a lie. She carefully picked those words. The elders have decided that, if Axel ever wanted to leave the family, there must be a valid reason, and he would have to serve for at least 10 years. She said him not to engage in the family business, but that doesn''t mean he would be free. He would have to report to the family once a month and do all the tasks that are assigned. But she was confident that he would not leave the family, cause she knew that the answer of those questions would not affect him badly. "Alright then. My condition is that I want to be treated fairly. Since I am the first outsider, I think that I will be discriminated." Said Axel. "You don''t have to worry about it. I will make sure that you are treated fairly."Said Angela. "Alright, then I am ready to be the part of Venu family" "Before you say that, I would have to specify your duties. The dealing with league association, Pokemon traders and auction should be done in the Venu family premises. We have a branch of them here in our land. But the auction here is handled by Venu family, not the Zard family. So if you want to buy from the auction, then you could do it outside too but if you want to sell in the auction, then you would have to do it in Venu family. 20% of your income in any way should be contributed to the family. Since you are the first outsider, I would relax you a bit. Venu family, would not care about small incomes that you will have, but if something big happens that affects the entire region then, you will be contributing. And lastly, any influence you have in the future, Venu family will be a part of it. Don''t worry, like if you make a huge discovery, then your name will be the first to come up but you should also mention that you are a part of Venu family" He thought about it for some time and thought that it was a fair deal. He would not have to loose anything. "I have no problem in that" Axel said. "Then Venu family is glad to have you in our home," Angela said and she shook his hands. "Then what I have to do to become a part of the family?" Axel said after drinking some tea. "Nothing much, you will have to sign some doc.u.ments and your Pokecard will be updated showing your affiliation to Venu family" said Angela. "That''s it?" asked Axel. "Yes, what did you think, that there would be some blood ritual?" asked Angela with a grin. Then the papers were done and his card was updated. Axel had finally become Venu family member. "Your 2 previous questions will be answered tomorrow since it is already late at night. But first, let me tell you about your task tomorrow. Starting tomorrow, for at least 3 months you will be training inside the family premises. You are the first outsider of us. We can''t have a weak trainer outside the world. It will ruin our reputation."Angela said like it is the most natural thing to say. "What I cannot stay here for 3 months. The elite 4 competition is in 1 year and 9 months and I don''t even a gym badge yet" shouted Axel openly. "Haha, you think that you could win the elite 4 competition in the first 2 years of your journey. Don''t make me laugh kid, beating a Gym and an Elite 4 member is not a walk in the park. Even Prof. Oak took 5 years to beat the elite 4 and extra 4 years to be the Champion. And that is the record time of being the Champion. You don''t even have a rare Pokemon that could fight. The evolution from rare to higher-level takes more time than from common to rare. Believe me, kid, this training is the thing that you need to shorten your training time." Axel reluctantly nodded. He also realized that Angela was right. Because of the quest given by the system to be the champion in 2 years and cause of his seeing the anime and playing games, he thought that beating the gym and elite 4 would not be very difficult. But he was starting to realize that he was wrong. To be a Champion, you at least must have a Champion-ranked Pokemon, and besides Venu family, even the other families didn''t have Champion-ranked Pokemon. To beat the first gym, he must at least have 3 rare ranked Pokemon but he didn''t even have a rare ranked Pokemon that could fight. So he thought that training here might not be a bad idea. Chapter 35 - The Meeting A new day with new hope and a new journey. At least that was what going on in Axel''s mind. Axel had decided that he would train in the Venu family for 3 months and increase his battle powers. There was a knock on the door and Axel eventually opened it. "Yo! Top of the morning to you laddie" said a cheerful voice. The voice belonged to a man, around 20s, well built, with a height of around 6 feet. He was wearing a dark purple t-shirt with light trousers. The T-shirt had a ''V'' sign printed on it which was of green colour. It was a flashy getup, to say the least. "My name is Peter, the leader asked me to bring me to her and she would brief you about your situation. Are you ready for a hot day?" This guy seemed overly enthusiastic and it creped Axel a bit. But at least he was not discriminating against him, so he was okay with it. "Good morning Peter. Just give me 10 minutes to get ready. Why don''t you make yourself comfortable for a bit in my room." Axel said, leaving the door open and getting ready to take a shower. After around 30 minutes, They were in front of the meeting hall. But this time, unlike before, there were no empty chairs. All the six chairs were filled with middle-aged men and women and Angela was a the front of it. "Woh..!! What a handsome young lad. Nice pick Angela. Hello my name is Serena" said a middle-aged woman. The woman straight short hair and a fair face. Angela gave a look of disgust to the woman and said "Axel, let me introduce you to the elders. There are five elders in our Venu family. Serena, the one who just spoke is an expert in the medical field. She was the one who healed your Pokemon before. She is in charge of healing Pokemon, us and creating potions, antidotes, you name it. The one next to her is Adam. He is the head of the training department. He helps in training young trainers like you. The 2 people next to you are Mark and Sujan. They are in the research field and communication, trade department. Mark handles the research and history portion. Sujan is the main line of communication and trade with the outside world and inside Venu family. The last person is Drojo. He is the one who makes that the rules of the family are being followed, and the caretaker of the family''s premises." Axel gave a nod to each one of them and they replied back. However, the man named Drojo doesn''t seem to be very fond of him. His look was a mixture of anger and disgust and he was not trying to hide it. Axel didn''t give him any matter of thought. He just wanted to get stronger. Then Angela spoke again "You asked me 2 questions before, Why did the Venu family choose you to be the first outsider, and what are the benefits you will receive? To answer the first question, I will first have to tell you our family''s situation" When Angela said that, many elders had a disapproving and hesitating look. Clearly, they didn''t want their secrets to be revealed but they didn''t oppose it either. "Up until 300 years ago, Venu family was the most powerful family in the Kanto region. It was cause we had the resources to be in that position. It was the cause of the forest we had. This forest is one of the mystical forests there ever was in the Kanto region. It had items, energy and resources that normal forests didn''t have. So we flourished cause of it. It was the cause of this forest, we created our secret training techniques, created valuable items like metal coat, miracle seed, never-melt ice, Adamant orb, and many more, and that too of superior quality. The forest holds more secret than this which you will come to know with your stay here. But the resources started to diminishes and some of them don''t even exist. We didn''t make contact with the outside world cause we didn''t need it before but now we needed to change. Zard family holds the auction so, regarding items and resources, they are now at the top. One of the elite 4 and the strongest gym in the Kanto region is affiliated with the Toise family and they control most of the seas in the Kanto region. But we don''t have anything now. It is not that we didn''t try to communicate and trade with the outside world but since not much is known about us, the people didn''t trust us. That is where you come in. Selecting you were done at random actually. I found you to have potential and since you are a neutral party, we selected you." Axel now understood why he was selected. Venu family was trapped inside their own home. The thing that they felt proud of was now their prison and they want to get out of it. "Another region of your selection is the influence. Every year, in the Kanto region budget conference, a certain amount of resources are separated for the 3 starter families. The amount of resources given is by deciding the influence and contribution that the family did for the betterment of the region. One of the major reasons for the improvement of the other 2 families is also the cause of these resources. Since we never cared about the outside world, we don''t have any influence outside, so we get the least amount of resources, and sometimes we don''t even get a penny. So, we have thought to change it. And due to the diminishing of resources our family and not in contact with the outside world, our young generations are, how do I put this delicately, ummm¡­ , very incompetent and pitifully weak!!!. We may still be the most powerful family now cause of the elders and me but the same could not be said after the time passes." "Regarding the benefits that you will get, Peter will give you the tour of our home and explain it to you. And your training will start from tomorrow. If you have any questions you may ask now" Said Angela concluding her little speech. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The chapter was short today, but things will get interesting from the next chapter. Chapter 36 - Infinity Energy The main headquarters of the Venu family was not large. It was Gynormous. On the first look, Axel had thought that the place would compare to one of the large cities of the earth. How very wrong he was. The place was comparable to a medium country of the Earth. Peter started the orientation program as instructed by the leader. The ranking of the members of the family was simple. There were young trainers, elite trainers, elders, and finally the leader. Peter was an elite trainer. There were around 300 members at the main headquarters and a maximum of 50 members in its branches. There are only 4 branches of Venu family and they were all in a different region. The 4 branches are from Johto, Sinnoh, Kalos and Ferrum. "What is this Ferrum region? It doesn''t seem to be a part of the 8 ruling regions?" asked Axel. Many regions had not been shown in the anime or games. However, there were 8 ruling regions. These regions hold the most power. They were Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Alola, and Galar regions. But there were many other regions besides those 8 regions. Those were called trivial regions. Ferrum must be part of trivial regions. "Ferrum region is an important branch for us. Cause it is an examination place where we determine the ranking of our family members. There are 4 rankings of members in Venu family. Except for the leader''s position, all other ranks are decided in the Ferrum region. It is the home of cities, towns, stadiums, ruins and other locations such as volcano, multiple islands, and even a dragon''s nest. There is a Ferrum league. Battles are held wherever the energy of the earth is particularly strong, so most areas in the region serve as battle arenas. If you have certain achievements in those battles, your rank will increase, but it is an unrelated topic for you now." Said Peter "Are there any benefits of higher ranks in the members?" Asked Axel. "There are many, there are many resources which are unlocked if you become an elite member. If you become an elder, then your decisions could impact the whole Venu family. You are now at the bottom of the rank, so try to increase it fast" Peter showed me many things; Auction house, Pokemon traders, Medical department, residential and commercial buildings, and finally "This is the infamous forest of Venu family. Its name is DeorcLacu Holt. Around 3/4th of the total area of the premises consists of DeorcLacu Holt. This is the biggest forest in the Kanto region and it is very mysterious. The interesting part is, it has not been fully explored. The deeper you go down the forest, the more dangerous it becomes. It comes to the point that, we humans could not even explore further or we just die. There is a huge purple tree in the forest. It is a focal point that divides the forest with a deep crack line forming from one end of the forest to another. Our ancestors had told us never to venture past that crack until we are ready. Since the resources are diminishing, around 50 years ago, we made an explorer group of 6 people, to venture past the crack." Saying that Peter''s face was not energetic like before. It was felt with dread and sadness. "What happened then?" asked Axel as he was really into the story. "Nobody returned. We waited them for months behind the crack but they never returned. The group consisted of 5 elite members and 1 elder. It was a powerful group. My father too was in that group." Seeing such a sad face in Peter, Axel didn''t know what to do. He just patted his back and said sorry to make him remember this. After some time, Peter seemed to regain his energetic personality. "The orientation session is almost over. I just need you to take you to the training field. Mark the elder specializing in history and research will meet you there. He wishes to talk to you." "Why does he wish to see me? Do you know the reason?" Axel asked. "I am not completely sure, but I guess elder Mark wishes to give you some lessons on history and the research field. As you may already know, not many elders are psyched about you joining our family. Mark is not one of them. His only interest is in research and history and he doesn''t care about family politics. So I guess he may be interested in you though I don''t know why. Remember getting a lesson with an elder is already very rare. So you should take full advantage of it" said Peter with a serious face. Peter may not know why Mark was interested in him but Axel could make a guess. He is a research assistant and he had now released his 2 theories: Mega evolution and Eeveelution. Mega evolution has not been discovered yet and there are only 3 eeveelution at the movement. Axel wanted to complete his research on these 2 subjects¡­.. But he could not. Axel was not a scientist in his previous life. He knew that Pokemon could mega evolve with Mega stone but he didn''t know how to create it or find it. Even if he found the mega stone and the corresponding stone for the trainer, he didn''t know how to assimilate it. He thought only finding the 2 stones would not be enough. There must be something science stuff to be done to complete the process. Regarding Eeveelution, he knew how to do it, but how could he prove it? Even if he knew the process, if he wanted this to be his research, he must develop the theory paper with the integration of a lot of elements like how modern-day scientist prove their theories by combining various elements like hydrogen, oxygen etc. So, Axel also wanted to talk with Mark. Maybe he had something that could help him. The training field was inside the forest. The forest consists of many camps field with training fields, battlefield, research field, and many more. There were 25 training fields inside the forest. Many young trainers and elite trainers were battling in the training field. Some were experimenting on Pokemon moves and some of them were training their body. Axel and Peter went to training field no.7 where they saw a Venusaur and Scizor in a battle stance. The training file was round with a path of grasses and bushes covered. More than dozen of trainers were watching the spectacle. "Let me see Stacy, how much you have improved. Venusaur use ''growl'' said a young women "Scizor!! Concentrate" said Stacy. By looking at the power they were emitting, the 2 Pokemons looked above rare ranked. So the ''Growl'' of Venusaur, basically looked liked a roar. A huge sound came from its mouth, the air was whistling at a fast pace and some of the grass uprooted from their position. However, Scizor didn''t budge an inch. His hair had all flown up like a spike from that ''growl''. It surprised Axcel, that the trainer could train a normal move like ''Growl'' to such an extent. ''Growl'' is an early move that any Pokemon could learn, it has decent effects but when the Pokemon starts to learn more moves, the trainer prioritizes the more that has more effects and damage, and ''Growl'' was not one of them. So he was curious about this trainer. "You have improved Stacy and Scizor. You have won this challenge" said the young women. Now Axel was even more surprised. How did the girl name Stacy win? The young women just used "Growl" and she lost? It was incredibly confusing to Axel. But the help had come. "You have a look of confusion boy!!" said a man in a hoarse voice. He then noticed that the voice belonged to elder Mark. "How did the young women with Scizor win?" asked Axel. "This is a training field boy, not a battlefield. Here, trainers train their Pokemon, in their moves, or in battle or taking advice from their colleges. They also sometimes have a challenge. Pretti challenged Stacy that her Scizor could not withstand "Growl" but she did, hence she won. "But let me ask you something "Growl" is a move that reduces the target''s Attack by one stage. There is a 100% chance it will be effective if it is used by a Pokemon with above rank and a high probability to be effective if the Pokemons are in equal rank. Sizor is a rare ranked Pokemon but Venusaur is an elemental Pokemon. So how did Scizor withstood the attack after taking it head on?" asked Mark. Axel was surprised about hearing this. He didn''t notice at first but Venusaur was higher ranked than Scizor. The move hit Sizor head on but it didn''t seem to have any affect. Most of the Scizor stats are based on Attack, it is not a defensive Pokemon, so how did it do it? Did it receive some special training? Is this the secret training method of Venu family? Axel had lots of questions in his head. After thinking for some time and not finding an answer, Axel said "I have no idea. How could Scizor withstand the attack? " Mark had a grin on his face, then he said "Boy, have you heard of Infinity energy?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am writing some advanced chapters for creating *******. So the chapters were delayed Chapter 37 - Taking Lessons Lance and Blackthorn comes from Johto region, and Clair is his cousin. These things on the previous chapters have been corrected. I am writing advanced chapter for ''Pat reon'', so the chapters are getting delayed now. Please, bear it for couple of days ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Axel had a dazed look on his face. This is a word that he had not heard before. Axel had only watched the early seasons of anime and played early games. So there might be a lot that he didn''t know about. He had heard of big things like Mega stones, Z-moves and other things, but not all the things. So he didn''t know about infinity energy (Infinity energy is something that is described in Pokemon games. This is not created by the author) Seeing such a look on his face, Mark smiled even more and said "Before I say anything about it, why don''t we go somewhere quiet. There are a lot of things that I have to teach you. And thanks, Peter, you are now excused" saying that both of them went somewhere quiet in the forest. It was not difficult to find such a place here. There was a rectangular table with chairs near the tree. A small wooden cottage could be seen. "This is my personal farmhouse. It is small, I know, but this is where I go when I want to be alone. Make yourself comfortable, I will come with some honey tea" saying that elder Mark went inside the cottage. Axel sat on one of the chairs and let all of his Pokemons out. Nidoran, Shedinja, Weedle, Gogoat, and Charmander. Everyone greeted Axel and started doing their own things. Gogoat was just sleeping and minding his own business. Weedle was curious about the whole forest and was roaming around. Nidoran and Shedinja had become quite close now. They started to talk to each other and sometimes would train together too. Charmander was just the same naughty kid. Axel didn''t mind Charmander, cause it takes 3 months for a Pokemon to come out of the baby stage, and Charmander was 1.5 months old. Shedinja has become a sort of a leader of the group. It was one of the strongest in the group and it seemed to be quite wise. Axel could see Shedinja lecturing Charmander but he didn''t know what it was saying. While looking at his Pokemon, Mark arrived with a tray filled with 2 cups of tea and some biscuits. "Help yourself, my first outsider, well that is what the young trainers have been calling you these days." ''So my involvement in the family is already spread huh'' thought Axel. "So¡­" said Axel "Yeesss¡­?"asked Mark. "You were going to tell me something about infinity energy," said Axel. "Oh! Yes, I was just teasing you, hahaha" '' what a weird guy'' thought Axel. "Before I say anything about infinity energy, let me answer the previous question, that I asked myself. ''Growl'' would decrease the attack by one stage. But Scizor was not affected. If you look it closely, certain attacks improve or lowers certain stats. Those are called status move. Like barrier could increase defense, confide decreases sp.attack of the opponent many more. These attacks though invisible would attack certain parts of the body of the Pokemon which causes the d.e.s.i.r.ed effect. If we could find those weak points and capitalize on them, then the Pokemon could be able to defend such an attack. That was the reason Scizor could defend the ''Growl'' even though Venusaur was a higher-ranked Pokemon." "Don''t get me wrong, if a Pokemon is powerful itself, then it could defend these attacks, no problem, but if we use such methods then, I believe the result would be extremely positive." Added Mark. "Besides did you also notice that the ''Growl'' of Venusaur was very powerful ?" asked Mark. Axel nodded on this. He didn''t know how powerful should a complete elemental Pokemon could be but that ''Growl'' was powerful. "Since status moves improve or lower certain stats, we believe that, if the status moves are trained to maximum then it would develop into a psychic type." Said Mark "What!!!!! Are you sure? So, that ''Growl'' was a Psychic type move?" asked Axel. If this was true then, it would change a lot in the Pokemon world. ''Is this the secret that the Venu family is hiding?'' thought Axel. ''If a type could be changed into another type¡­, this is a huge matter!!'' thought Axel. "Of course not. But that is what I believe. This is the research that I am currently working on actually" said Peter. "Ohh," Axel said in a disappointed voice. This suspense with Venu family''s secret was killing him now. "Aww, don''t be disheartened. Why don''t I tell you the secret of Venu family then ?" Said Mark sipping tea. He was talking as if he was going to give candies to everyone. Except for Peter, non of the people of Venu family seemed nice to Axel. "Alright, alright, let''s get serious. The reason I wanted to talk to you was to actually tell the secrets of Venu family. This has been decided as per the meeting of elders and leader."Said Mark. Taking a deep breath Mark continued "Do you know about the real origin of the Pokemon world? Do you know about the relationship between a Pokemon Master and Arceus? There are many secrets that have been removed from the history pages. These truths are only known by the Champions and the Pokemon master. However, the truth has been kept secret from others. Around 700 years ago, the champion of the Kanto region was from Venu family. The truth about the world, about infinity energy, was shared by The Champion to the Venu family. This is the secret of us that the world still doesn''t know." "So, does that mean you know the truth about Pokemon master and Arceus? And all other questions?" asked Axel "Of course not." Said Mark. Axel was again disappointed to hear that. He really wanted to know that answer. He felt that he will know the truth about himself and his reincarnation if he found about it. "The truth revealed to The Champions are less compared to the truth that is revealed to Pokemon Master. Besides, it has been 700 years, so some of the truths have been scrapped. However, we do have knowledge about infinity energy and how it originated 3000 years ago during Kalos- Galar war. Now let me tell you about the Kalos - Galar war" Chapter 38 - Kalos - Galar war and the Origin of Pokeballs "The Kalos-Galar took place around 3000 years ago. The details of the war have been removed from history, but due to our Champion, we have detailed knowledge about it. An unnamed empire had ruled over the continent that Kalos and Galar were a part of. However, it soon collapsed due to unknown reasons. Due to the rushed nature of its downfall, the two regions disagreed on who would rule the area that made up Kalos and Galar. As such, the two regions quickly made empires of their own and went into battle." Said Mark. Axel was silent when listening to his story. Mark then continued, "This long conflict was drawn out and many lives were lost. People treated Pokemon with special powers as mere tools in their conflict, so they gathered lots of Pokemon, including Pokemon with unique powers. The battle went on for more than 3 years but it didn''t end. In order to emerge victoriously, the soldiers believed that they needed even more powerful Pokemon. That is where the king of Kalos region, "Az" comes in. Az had a Floette which he loved very much. It was the Pokemon that he had received from his late mother. But it was forcefully taken from him by the soldiers and became just another sacrifice in the war." "AZ received the body of his beloved Pokemon sometime later, and out of unspeakable grief, he decided to end this war. His love for Floette was so much that he wanted to revive it. So he made an ultimate weapon. No one knows how the ultimate weapon was created. The ultimate weapon was said to be the weapon to be used by supreme beings. The weapon has the power to store the infinity energy" "Infinity energy is the bioenergy of Pokemon, and humans too. It is present more in Pokemons, that is why Pokemon are more powerful and could do magical things. It is the power derived from the life force of Pokemon. And Az did exactly that, he used the ultimate weapon, killed millions of Pokemons and humans, destroyed both sides of the conflict, and ended the war. And with that amount of energy, he revived his Pokemon Floette. But his Floette, disgusted with the fact that the machine was powered by the life energy of other Pokemon, left him. But something happened. Due to the use of infinity energy, Az and Floette gained immortality. They could never die." Now, everything was coming to place for Axel. He didn''t know all of the truth of Arceus, Pokemon master, or the origin of this world, but he now knew, why this information is hidden. If the knowledge of this comes to light then, the world would be devastated. The greed of humans is not something that could be contained. But Mark was not finished. "Az disappeared after that, nobody knows where he went. But we know that his younger brother had wished to claim Kalos out of his own greed. After AZ ended the war with the ultimate weapon, his brother realized the error of his ways and sought to make amends for his actions. He buried the ultimate weapon in a safe and unknown place and told his sons, never to use it again, as it was the weapon for supreme beings." There was a stiff silence when the conversation ended. Mark broke the silence, "But of course, that is not the end of the story. We believe that, companies like Devon corporation and Silph co. have done extensive research on infinity energy. But the history of that is a bit complicated. Devon and Silph didn''t get such power by discovering the ultimate weapon, it was due to the influence of Unown and Ho-oh" "How do Unown and Ho-oh comes to play in this?" Asked Axel "Well boy, the invention of Pokeballs is a recent discovery and it has not been very long. Everyone believes that Devon and Sliph invented the Pokeball but they are wrong. Around 150 years ago, in a small city named Ecruteak city, there was a bell tower that was burned and 3 Pokemons died on that tower that day. But Ho-oh one of the legendary Pokemon came forward and revived those Pokemons as the 3 legendary beast, Suicune, Entei, and Raikou. This is not a secret as many of us who have done research on it know. But Ho-oh did the same thing, that the ultimate weapon did, revive the dead. How was it able to do it? Not much is known about Ho-oh''s power but we know that it could revive the dead. We believe that, Ho-oh has the power to control this infinity energy and it did it with the help of Unown." "But how does Unown comes into it. We don''t know much about it, except from the books and some statue about it" Asked Axel. "Ruins of Alph is called the home of Unown as there are many engravings, statues of Unown in it. But there is a particular engraving of the ruins of Alph except for Unown, that is of Ho-oh. We only that Arceus created the Pokemon universe with the help of Unown, so we could say that the Unown has the power of creation or it helps in creation. So we believe that, Ho-oh revived the Pokemons with the help of Unown." "But how does it connect to Devon and Sliph.co?" Axel asked being confused. "I am coming to that, my boy, damn! You are really impatient. There is an old man named Kurt who leaves in Azalea Town in the Johto region who proclaims that he could make the Pokeballs with the help of a fruit called Apricorn" said Mark. "Apricorn..?" "Yes, Apricorn. Further, he says that, his family has been making Pokeballs for generations. But here is what gets interesting. Ruins of Alph is located near to Azalea town." "Oh! So you meant to say that, the ancestors of old man Kurt took the help of Ho-oh and Unown, gain the power of infinity energy, and made the Pokeballs. But I thought infinity energy helps to revive the dead, not making Pokeballs" Said Axel. "Then, let me ask you this, what do you think happens to the energy which has been dispersed. After that Venusaur, used that ''Growl'', what do you think will happen to the power released after the attack?" Asked Mark in a curious tone. "Well, the energy is never destroyed. It changes from one form to another" said Axel as it is the most natural thing to say. "Yes, that is right, I believe¡­. I mean that I know that energy changes from one form to another." Said Mark. Then he put his hand under his jaw, thought, and said, "but how do you know it? ''Energy not being destroyed and changing from one form to another, it is something that I have researched for a very long time and then came to the conclusion that it is true. But how do you know about it?" asked Mark And then Axel realized, that he had made a horrible mistake. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you like the story? please send me thoughts and powerstones. Chapter 39 - Notice: New Pa treon Account And now here we are, a new day and a new ''Pa treon'' account. I have been writing this novel for many months and have finally decided to open a ''Pa treon'' account. You, my fellow readers, could support me in my ''Pa treon'' account. There are list of things that I need to tell you about it: 1. The ''Pa treon'' account would be online from Sunday with additional chapters. It is all done for now, but since I have never operated in it, I just want to make sure of everything 2. There are 3 tiers here: a. "Official Patron " with AU$5 (USD around $3) per month = 2 additional chapters b. "All- access Patron" with AU$9 (USD around $6) per month = 5 additional chapters. c. "VIP Patron" with AU$ 20 (USD around $14) per month = 10 additional chapters 3. Or you could just support me by being a member. 4. The additional chapters in each tier will increase from next month if I could get good support from you guys. 5. And I would to releasing 1 chapter each day on from Sunday, for 6 days a week, except for Saturday, cause I have my shit to take care of too. 6. Do send me your comments on how you feel about this That all I wanted to say. Hope you guys support me in this journey. Yours truly, The Silver Prince Chapter 40 - Infinity Energy End My ''Pa teron'' is online now. I have posted 10 additional chapters for different tiers. My id for ''Pa teron'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' I hope you guys support me in this endeavor. ------------------------------------------------------------- This was said by one of the most important figures in Earth''s history, Albert Einstein. This was the basic theory, that he had learned in school but what he failed to realize was, Albert Einstein was the scientist from planet Earth, not the Pokemon world. Since it was a basic theory, Axel never thought that this has not been discovered in the Pokemon world. "Well, you see, when ice is heated, it turns into water. And if the water is heated to, it turns into vapor. The vapor rises into the sky, and it becomes the clouds, and finally, it rains with water. Thus completing the cycle. I just thought that since it could happen to water,ice, vapor and clouds, why would it not be possible for infinity energy and all the types of energy?" said Axel, trying to make his point clear. But Axel could see a surprised face in Mark again. ''Oh shit!'' he thought. "Vapor turns into clouds? Where did you get that from? Can you prove it?" Mark started asking multiple questions to Axel. Yes, this was what Axel was afraid of. These idiots in the Pokemon world don''t even know about ''water cycle'' which he had learned in school. Axel was thinking hard, on how to get out of this situation now. "Uhh¡­ yes that is right. The reason I know about it is cause I tested it myself. You know that my sub-profession is the assistant researcher. I call this phenomena the'' water cycle''. After thinking about ''water cycle'' I was wondering, would that be possible for any other energies. It seems like your research and mine are quite similar. We could make a good team" said Axel. "Then why don''t we test this theory of yours. If this is right, then I could further improve my research. Come on let''s go, I have a water and fire-type Pokemon. I think we could do it." Said Mark trying to stand from the chair. ''Ahh, I know what that look is. This is the ''crazy researcher'' look.'' Thought Axel. "Wait a minute. You have not completed your story. Why don''t we finish it first and then we could create rain." said Axel hurriedly. Mark thought it about for a couple of seconds and then sat down saying, "so yeah, where was I? Hmm? Oh yes!, so we believe that the ancestors of Kurt took the help of Ho-oh and Unown, gain the power of infinity energy, and made the Pokeballs. Because Kurt''s family was the only one to make those balls, it was not widely known in the past. But I think Kurt passed out his knowledge to the companies like Devon corporation and Sliph co. So they were able to mass-produce the Pokeballs." "What I believe is that, if we want to manipulate infinity energy, we may not need to sacrifice the lives of Pokemon. I don''t know if Devon or Sliph has done such things but, if they were killing the Pokemons to create the Pokeballs, looking at the number of Pokeballs that are created, it would be impossible for them to hide it." Said, Mark. " What you mean to say is that, if we could manipulate infinity energy, a grass-type Pokemon could use fire type attacks?" asked Axel. This theory defied logic. If a Pokemon could you any type of attack then it would be heaven-defying. "Yes, that is exactly what I believe. Damn! It is really nice to talk to an intelligent youngster like you. Not many people around here get this. It is really frustrating" said Mark. "Then have you succeeded in it?" asked Axel in a curious tone. "No, unfortunately, I have not. But there is some progress in it." Said Mark tilting his head. "What I have found is that infinity energy could be changed in many forms. I believe that evolution stones, Z-crystal, PokeNav, all of them are created from infinity energy." "However, there are some Pokemons who are more s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e to it than others. Like the Eevees. They could evolve to fire type, electric type and water type depending on the stones that they could get. It is cause they are s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e to infinity energy. You have ongoing research on Eeveelutions. I think that this information could be a huge help for you." Said Mark. Mark has been interested in Axel''s research. He was also the one who blindly approved Axel to be a part of the family. What Venu family needed now was the influence. And what could be better than get such a young promising researcher in their hands. "Another Pokemon that is s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e to it is Lucario. It is an aura Pokemon. It could sense danger, sense feelings of others. It could sense the aura with help of its white spike. Riolu on have 2 white spots. However, Lucario has 4 white spikes making it able to sense more aura" concluded Mark "Though we are not able to freely manipulate infinity energy, we have come across some of the training methods that would be helpful to you. Tomorrow, Elder Adam, would be giving a lecture on training. He would tell you about it." They talked about their research for a bit, and Axel also said about his research on Eeveelutions and mega evolution. Mark was really surprised by imagination of Axel. The theory that Axel mentioned doesn''t seem impossible to achieve. After some time Mark stood and said, "so now, why don''t we go and test your ''water cycle'' theory" They both went to an open grass field. At aside, there was a massive lake. Mark took out 2 Pokeballs and threw them in the air, 2 Pokemons came onto the surface. The first was a mammalian, quadrupedal Pokemon covered in short, reddish-orange fur. It had long ears with black interiors, dark eyes, and a small black nose. There were three small toes and a yellow paw pad on each foot. Fluffy yellow fur forms a small tuft on its head, as well as its bushy tail and a mane around its c.h.e.s.t and neck. It was Flareon. "Kuoooo!" Flareon gave a cute roar. This Flareon seemed powerful. It was obviously above rare ranked. As Axel was going to identify the Pokemon, another Pokemon emerged. This Pokemon was Poliwrath. "Poli" it said. "Alright, both of you. We are here to test a theory." "Kuooo" "Poli" they said. Flareon seemed to be excited while hearing it but Poliwrath seemed to be disappointed. Looking at Poliwrath, it clearly seemed that, it was a battle oriented Pokemon "Poliwrath use ''surf'', I need a huge one. And Flareon, use ''lava plume'' with all your power and turn the ''surf'' into Vapor. Make it so that the vapor rises in the sky.." Said Mark. And that is what they did, Poliwrath used ''surf''. The surf was so massive that you could not see the end of it. But Flareon was also getting started. The inferno of scarlet flames touched all over the water and vapor arose. The place was very smoky and unclear due to the collision. After the vapor went up, nothing happened. "You need to do it few more times and it takes time to form the cloud and rain," said Axel. The duo did the same thing 2 more times and after some time, it finally rained. "Oh!! It is a miracle. You were right my boy" Mark shouted jumping in the air. Chapter 41 - Meeting Elder Adam Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' I have created a discord account. If you want to join. here it is: discord.gg/gcR634HW9d Hope you guys will support me ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Axel and Mark went to Mark''s research lab. Mark shared his research in more detail. Mark seemed to be really enthusiastic when it comes to his research. He was acting as if he had found a person that could understand his language. It was already late in the evening when their meeting ended. "Our meeting ends here today. Tomorrow, you will be meeting Adam, who will tell you about our Venu family training methods. Don''t worry, Adam doesn''t have any bad intentions. Actually, me, Adam and Sujan were the ones, who supported you, to be a part of the Venu family. Why don''t you get a good rest today" said Mark. Axel then went to his apartment. Saying it as an apartment may not be technically correct. It was a whole house!. Since the Venu family had such a huge property, Every young trainer had a house which was very surprising to Axel. The house was of 2 floors. The ground floor consisted of a kitchen and Living room, and the upper floor consisted of a bedroom. Axel, however, was not in the mood of making food. So, he rested a little, took a shower, got fresh and went to the canteen. Axel ate the food and went to his house to sleep. The next day, He went to the school. Yes, Venu family also had a school for their young trainers. However, the school operated differently than those on earth. There were no compulsory classes. It was more practical than theoretical. There were many professions that young trainers could choose. They are: 1. Pokemon Breeder 2. Pokemon doctor 3. Pokemon coordinator 4. Pokemon Professor 5. Pokemon Trainer 6. Pokemon Ranger The school was obviously, very huge. Since Axel came to this world, he had realized that everything in the world is bigger than his previous world. ''It may be cause the Pokemon world is a lot bigger than Earth'' he thought. Every buildings, city, schools and forest; everything seem to be big. Axel waited for elder Adam in the reception area for about 10 minutes. He wondered whether he would also join the school too. At that moment, Adam arrived. Axel didn''t notice it at first, but he was a muscular man. Not with the type of bulging biceps. His arms may not seem big, but they seemed hard and had lots of curves. He was not very tall, around 5 feet 8 inches but he looked like a tough guy. Axel waved his hand indicating that he was here. Adam came and gave a strong handshake. "Hello Axel, how was your first day in the family?" he asked. "It was good. I got to talk with elder Mark. He seemed like a good guy" said Axel. Axel didn''t know what to say to this stranger. He was never good at talking to a stranger and making a good conversation. "Well, Mark is very crazy when it comes to his research and work. But yeah, he is a good guy. Alright!, I am not the man of many words like Mark, so why don''t we go down to business. Follow me, we need a quiet area at first" said Adam Axel then followed Adam for the search of a quiet area. It was not hard to find it, considering the size of the forest. He liked this about the Venu family. They could think in peace. While following Axel asked Adam, "So, do I have to join the school too?" "No, you do not. The school teaches you from the basic level. You have the knowledge for that. After young trainers complete their school, based on their performance, they get a reward and a Pokemon as a gift for their graduation." Said Adam "So, what would I be doing?" asked Axel. "You will be getting a crash course from me and an elite trainer. I am busy, so I could not guide you every time. The school is more practical than you think. Normally, you would study for 8 years in school. For the last year, a personal elite trainer will guide a group of 4 students each. You will be part of a certain group. But first, I will have to give you some lessons. I know you are an assistant researcher too, for that, Mark had personally said that he would give you some lessons on it. So, you don''t have to worry about that" said Adam "So, would I be getting a reward and a Pokemon at the end of this crash course?" asked Axel "Haha, of course, you would. But since you are doing a 3-months crash course, are an outsider and have only stepped on this place yesterday, the elders, do not trust you very much. So if you want to get a reward and a Pokemon, then you would have to gain our trust and show remarkable progress" At this point in time they have reached a quiet place that Adam approved off. "So which Pokemon do the young trainers normally get? Would I be getting a bulbasaur?" asked Axel "Ohh, so you think that, since we are from Venu family, our main Pokemon is Bulbasaur. Then let me tell you that you are wrong" said Adam "Oh so you guys focus on poison and grass type Pokemon?" asked Axel. "Haha, you are wrong again. Venu family focuses on versatile Pokemon" "Versatile Pokemon?" asked Axel again to make sure. It surprised him a little. He thought, since they are from Venu family, most of them will be focusing on Bulbasaur line or grass and Poison type Pokemon. "Yes, Zard family focuses on attack, Toise family focuses on defense but Venu family focuses on versatile Pokemons. The Bulbasaur line holds a special place in all our hearts. Venusaur is also a versatile Pokemon. Most of the young trainers prefer Bulbasaur as the training methods and the resources relating to it are high in the family. But the main Pokemon of Venu family is always a versatile Pokemon." "So what versatile Pokemons do you guys normally use?" asked Axel again being curious. "Ditto, Alakazam, Tyranitar, Dragonite, you name it. There are lots of Pokemon that are versatile. It depends on which Pokemon you sync with the most." "Alright then, our lesson begins now. It is not going to be long. There are some basic things that you should know about, that''s all." Said, Adam And the training of our protagonist would start from now on. Chapter 42 - Road to Pokemon Master Got my first Patron yesterday! Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me "Ok, before we start our lesson, show me all of your Pokemons. I want to see how well they are trained." Said Adam. Axel then threw out five of his Pokeballs. All of his Pokemon came out. Shedinja, Nidoran, Gogoat, Caterpie and Charmander. They all showed excited faces. Adam went and checked them one by one. He would check one of them, think for some time and go to another. Sometimes, he would tell his Pokemons to show all their moves. After contemplating for around 25 minutes he was finished. And then he came to conclusion. "Ok, the training of your Pokemons is not good. Don''t get me wrong, if you compare it with normal trainers, you have done exceptionally well. In some cases, it is much better than those silver-spooned children. But if you want to be the most powerful trainer, many things are lacking. But the damage has not been done so we could repair it" said Adam Axel was a bit shocked when he heard that. He knew he had lacked in many areas when training them, but he didn''t expect Adam''s comment to be negative. "Like take your Nidoran for example. It has good potential. But you have trained it in many moves. So it has no specialization. The training of your Charmander is good. But what you have forgotten is, about its nature. It is a playful Pokemon, so training it seriously would not get you any result. I would not be going on each and every one of your Pokemon for now. You will learn it yourself. As every person is different, every Pokemons are also different and only their trainer would know them the most" "I have heard that you want to be a Pokemon Champion, is that true?" asked Adam. "No, I want to be the Pokemon Master," said Axel in a resolute voice. "Ohh, pretty c.o.c.ky, I see, I do see your determination in it, but let me ask you why? And don''t tell me it is your dream or you want to be famous, or rich. That is pretty shallow." "You don''t need to tell me now. Finding the reason is not easy, it takes experience, incidents and many more. But I advise you to search for that reason. Only then you would give 100% in it." Said Adam. Adam thought he may have been pretty hard on the young boy, so he tried to console him a bit. "I could not tell you the reason you want to the Pokemon master, but I could tell you how to become one. You need to gather 8 badges from 8 cities of Kanto region and challenge Indigo Plateau. In the Indigo Plateau, after you defeated all the participants, you will challenge the elite 4. After you won against them, you would finally get the authority to challenge the Champion of Kanto region. The time of that challenge, the stage, all of it will be decided by you, but if you lost the Challenge then you again have to battle the elite 4 to get the authority"said Adam Axel already knew about this, but he still kept quiet and listened. "First, the 8 gym badges. 1. For the first 2 badges, the gym leaders will challenge you as an intermediate trainer (they will use 3 rare ranked Pokemons) 2. For the next 3 badges, the gym leaders will challenge you as an advanced trainer (they will use at least 1 elemental Pokemon) 3. For the last 3 badges, the gym leaders will challenge you as a master trainer (they will use at least 1 Pseudo-king ranked Pokemon) Then comes the elite 4. All the Pokemons in their team are King ranked or higher. And finally the Champion. A Champion will at least have 1 Champion-ranked Pokemon. Right now, the Champion of Kanto region is Charles. And surprise surprise! !, he has 3 Champion ranked Pokemons" Axel gulped his saliva. He knew all this information. How could he not? He had searched for this information on the net. But listening to Adam summarize all this, he felt how far he was from his dream. ''And I don''t know why, but Adam is releasing a certain kind of pressure, the kind which makes your mental state unstable'' he thought. But Adam was not still finished. He continued "The gym leaders will use 3 Pokemons and the elite4 will use 6 Pokemons. The Champion will obviously use 6 too." And this point Axel raised his hand to question something. Seeing this Adam laughed a bit and said "Haha, you don''t have to raise your hand to ask a question. You are not in the kinder garden" "This may come out of the blue but why do the maximum number of Pokemons are always 6. Would it not be interesting to have 7 or 10 Pokemon battle challenges?" Axel asked. This dawn on him just now. In the game and in anime, a trainer is only allowed to carry a maximum of 6 Pokemons. However, that was not the case here in real life. A trainer could carry any number of Pokemons but the maximum number for the battle had not changed from 6. "It is not out of the blue. There is actually an interesting history behind it. At first, there were no such limitations. But of course, the process of challenging the gym, then the elite 4 and finally the Champion also didn''t exist. At that time, if you are the most powerful, you would be the Champion. But when the Pokeballs were invented and people started catching Pokemons, the balance was disturbed. Those who had malicious intentions, thieves and murders became active and started carrying out their deeds. They had Pokeballs so, they would steal Pokemons, money and do worse things cause they could carry any number of Pokeballs." "So, the maximum number of 6 Pokemons were made. Everyone could only carry 6 Pokemons, if the number exceeds, it would directly go to their PC. Even the leagues followed the example. But that was also not good. Young trainers became a victim of wild Pokemons due to this limitation. So it was lifted again. If the trainers or any people are outside the vicinity of the city or town where Pokemon center exists, then they could carry limitless Pokemon. But if they are inside it, then the number would be only 6." "However, the league still followed the example of 3 and 6 Pokemons. There are no specific reasons for it. It is just they are following the tradition" said Adam concluding his short speech. Chapter 43 - Meeting with Elder Adam 1 Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me ---- At this point, Axel was thinking that he had made the right decision of joining the Venu family. He had only been here for 2 days, and he had learned so much. "If you want to know more about the 6 Pokeballs limitation, you could ask Mark. It is his subject." Said Adam "But before I end my lecture on your process to becoming the Champion, I would have to add one little thing," Adam said. But Axel was sure, this was not anything little. But after thinking for a bit Adam said "Hmm.., let''s end our lecture on this topic. I don''t think I should say more about it. You will just lose focus. Don''t worry you will come to know of it when you are ready" Axel wanted to refute that and wanted to know more, but he knew he could not change Adam''s mind. So he also thought to end the topic. "Since the first 2 gyms are the easiest, I think we should focus on getting your Pokemons to rare ranked first. Now let me tell you the difference between an uncommon ranked Pokemon and rare ranked Pokemon." Saying this he sat on the ground and also told Axel to do the same. "On the surface, uncommon ranked Pokemons are those who are fully evolved. And the rare ranked are those, whose total base stats are above 500. Most of the Pseudo- legendary Pokemons directly jump to rare ranked as their base stats are higher. But if we go deeper, it is more complicated. For example, a Pikachu is also an uncommon ranked Pokemon, though it is not in its final evolution. It is cause, Pikachu needs an external factor, a thunderstone to become Raichu. I just said, rare ranked are those, whose basic stats are above 500 but you might be thinking, how to get there? Of course, you could battle with trainers and wild Pokemon and increase your experience and also your Pokemon''s stats. But that would take years if you ever want your Pokemon to be an elemental ranked (Step above rare ranked) and above." "This is also the truth, 90% of the trainers could not increase their Pokemon''s rank to elemental rank. It is not only cause it is too hard. But it takes a lot of time too. If you want your Pokemon to increase its rank to elemental, you will have to solidify its base" "It''s base¡­?" Asked Axel being confused. "Yes, it''s base. You see, elemental Pokemons are those Pokemons who could use their elemental powers at an exceptionally large capacity. Not only the Pokemon have to master its elements, but it also must have the capacity to hold such power. Meaning, it must have a strong body. It must have a strong body and mindset, if it wants to be an elemental Pokemon. Almost all of the trainers in the world do not care about it." "To be an elemental ranked Pokemon, It should have good body stats. Agility, dexterity, vitality, its muscles, and bones should be at the peak level. If a Pokemon train on this since the beginning then the improvement would be great and it would be easier for it to rank up to elemental. There are 2 ways to increase your body stats. One is with nutritious food. There are different kinds of food for each and every type of Pokemons. And the second is with hardcore training. After you train it to the d.e.s.i.r.ed level, the Pokemon could grasp its elemental Powers easily. The elemental Powers are at first blocked inside Pokemons. After you train its body, the energy slowly starts to unseal and then it improves. And finally, an elemental Pokemon is born" "Our time is short. You only have 3 months to train. Even though our young trainers in this generation are not very powerful, but to the outside world, we are the most powerful family there is. So the leader had decided to train you to a certain level. In these 3 months I can only solidify your basics and improve your battle tactics for a bit. So, let me tell you, what you are going to learn in these 3 months. There are 4 things we would concentrate on. They are: 1. Abilities and nature of Pokemon 2. Experience 3. Aura training Of course, there are other things to look out for, like team composition. But unfortunately, I can only give you some advice on it on a theoretical level. It takes time to make the balance." Axel was not very fond of getting a lecture. It was always boring for him. But the things he was learning from Adam right now were huge. He felt, if he could improve on those 4 fields then it would help him a lot in the future. "Before I say anything about these 4 things, let me tell you something about type advantage and disadvantage, team composition and potential of the Pokemon. First : Type advantage and disadvantage It is a basic thing which I think you are already aware of. But type advantage and disadvantage play a vital role in winning the battle. It would not make much of a difference in the early stage, but when the ranks of Pokemon reach elemental and above, it will be very helpful. When a Pokemon ranks ascend to elemental, its body and resistance to attacks are very high. Only then it could evolve to elemental rank. So, type advantage and disadvantage play a vital role at that time. Of course, you could also win if you have type disadvantage but it would take a lot of battle strategy and coordination to do it. Till now there is only one Pokemon who does not have any type-disadvantage. And that is "Eelektross". Eelektross has no weakness. It has an ability called ''levitate'' which makes it immune to ground type. It is found in Unova region. So if you ever found this Pokemon, make sure to catch it. Second: Team composition Team composition is a vague topic. Frankly, perfect team composition does not exist. You will start to learn about it in the latter days when you battle other teams. But if you want to make a good team composition make sure that your team''s Pokemon would have no weakness. Meaning, make such a team that one of your Pokemon weakness is canceled with another. It is all about the experience. Third: Potential of Pokemons There is not much to say about this. There are 5 potential of Pokemons. Low, normal, advanced, monstrous and divine. Pokemon having a divine potential has still not been found out but it is believed that Arceus has that potential. People make a big deal about the potential of the Pokemon. A good potential helps in moves mastery and body stats. But in the long run, it doesn''t make much of a difference. It helps Pokemon to gain power fast at the initial stage, but in the latter stage like Pseudo-king and above, there is not much of a difference. So make sure when you think about adding a new one in your team." Chapter 44 - Power of an Elemental Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me ---- The lecture took almost 4 hours. Axel wanted to learn more, but elder Adam was busy with other work. He was told that elder Adam will meet him again tomorrow at the same time to continue the lecture. So he had free time today!. He didn''t want to train his Pokemons today. He knew he had to start doing it for 3 months straight, so he decided to take a break and explore the new place. Though he may not be very rich but he still had 1.3 Million Pokedollars with him and he wanted to spend some of it. He was searching for items or resources that could improve his Pokemons. He mainly wanted to buy food recipes for Charmander line and Weedle line. Those were the only 2 left without a recipe. He had looked for Charmander''s recipe before and it cost around 1 Million Pokedollars. Last time he didn''t buy it cause, he thought he would need the money for other things. But now, 3 months of his time has been decided. While living inside the Venu family, he would only have care about his food and his Pokemon''s food. Almost everything was free. So he thought to buy it today. He even thought that the price would be lower here. ''Since, Charmander line is from Zard family, and Venu family hates Zard family, the price may be lower of Charmander''s recipe cause the Venu family hates them and wants to ridicule them'' he thought. Thinking about it he was in a very good mood. There were many places that sold such items here. But he was interested in one particular shop. It was 2 storied building and its name was ''The Chamber of¡­.'' ''The chamber of what? The chamber of secrets? What a weird naming sense. Well, let''s see what it has'' thinking about that, he entered. But what Axel didn''t know was that he had been one of the many victims of the shop''s name. One of the prime reasons people visited the shop was cause of its name. They wanted to know what was the Chamber of? There were no distinguishing features of interiors in the room. It was like any general shop. But aside from the interiors, everything about it was different. The customer could sit on one of the many chairs with a table next to it. Axel was given a personal attendant and a device what looked like an ipad. In the ipad look-alike thing, there were many items listed with their price. There were almost all of the items that he could think of. From Pokeballs, evolution stones to antidotes including many rare items. General items cost money but rare item cost points ? "Excuse me, what are these points and how do we get them?" asked Axel. "Oh hello dear customer, my name is Ken and I will be in your service. Points are something you could earn here by doing various things. From cleaning the floor to doing important mission, battling and participating in competitions. Of course, if you don''t have point you can exchange it for money but I suggest you not do it." "Ohh. Why is that?" "cause the ratio is truly pitiful. It takes a lot of money just to gather 1 point." "What is the ratio then?" asked Axel. "The ratio depends on the item you are purchasing. The more valuable the item, the more costly it is" Getting that brief explanation, Axel started to browse and he was shocked. There were lots of valuable items here. Like, Life orb, Assault Vest, miracle seed, Dragonair Egg, Larvitar Egg and freaking leftovers. But the price was in points so he didn''t think about it cause he knew he could not buy it now. So he started looking for the recipe and it shocked him. 1. Charmander line Food recipe: 1.5 Million Pokedollars 2. Weedle line Food recipe: 1.6 Million Pokedollars "What the f.u.c.k!!! Why are the prices here so high? Normally Charmander line cost around only 1 million Pokedollars. And 1.6 Million for Weedle recipe. Are you f.u.c.k.i.n.g kidding me?" roared Axel. Weedle is a bug-type Pokemon so all of the things related to it are very cheap. But the price of Weedle line was more than Charmander. He could not believe it. But ken said pacifying his customer "It is cause of the quality of the product, customer. This Charmander line recipe was stolen from Zard family. They have done extensive research on this recipe, hence the price. Looking at its quality, it is actually cheap. As for the Weedle recipe, the price of it is high cause this recipe is made by Venu family itself. Hundreds of years of substantial research have been done on it. Food recipe from Venu family mainly focuses on grass and poison type. Since Weedle is also a poison type, its price is a bit high" Hearing about this, Axel calmed down a bit. If what this Ken guy said was true then, he might have hit a jackpot. The cost may be on a larger scale but the benefits, in the long run, are very high. It is a one-time investment, cause Weedle line or Charmander line also has their evolution''s recipe in it. He was actually thinking to buy another Nidoran''s recipe from here too, cause it was also a poison type. But now he didn''t have the money to buy any of those. "Then I guess I have to come again. I don''t have enough money" said Axel. "How much do you have right now, customer?" asked Ken "I can only give you 1 million Pokedollars" said Axel. "Then why don''t you pay the difference with points." Said Ken. "I don''t have any. I am actually the first outsider of Venu family" "Oh, that I know customer. But I think Venu family must have also given you some points like a starter pack. Why don''t you check it in your Pokecard if you have some?" said Ken Axel then put the card in paying machine and it had 700 points which made Axel very happy. But he could only buy one recipe. After thinking about it for some time, he decided to buy Weedle recipe. Charmander was still a baby and was still drinking milk. So he didn''t need the recipe right now. But Weedle was already 3 months now and not a baby. "Ok, I want to buy Weedle recipe, how much additional point would it cost me?" asked Axel "how about 500 points?" "No, I can only give you 100 points" After haggling for a bit, Axel spend 1 million Pokedollars and 300 points to buy Weedle recipe. Then he walked outside to eat something delicious in a restaurant. He still had 300000 Pokedollars left. Next day, Axel and Adam were again in that same quiet area as last day. "Today is the last day of our lecture. From tomorrow, you would start your training. You would also join the group that consists of 4 young trainers and 1 elite trainer who would give you guidance." Said Adam "Ohh, I thought you would be the one who would be teaching me." "I wish I could, but there are lots of other things I have to take care. Being an elder is not an easy job" said Adam "Yesterday, we talked about 4 things that you would be focusing on for these 3 months. Before I explain those things, let me first show you the difference between the rank of Pokemon." Saying that there was a Pokeball in his hands. This was Adam''s style of teaching his students. Before the training began, he would show them different ranks of Pokemons so that they could understand the power of Pokemons of different ranks. Only by knowing this, they could understand how much they have to train. This was also done to show his superiority among the students. Of course, he never admitted the last point. "You already have a rare ranked Pokemon with you so you must already know its power," said Adam. He was right. Though Gogoat never wanted to fight and Axel only bought it for the milk, he knew Gogoat was powerful. Its defense and agility were very high. "But you may not have seen an elemental ranked Pokemon. So let me show you" saying that he threw the Pokeball high in the air and with a white light a Pokemon came. It was an avian Pokemon with large wings, sharp talons, and a short, hooked beak. Its glossy plumage was mostly brown with cream-colored underparts and flight feathers. Its head had a decorated crest that was nearly as long as its body. The center feathers of its crest were yellow, while the outer feathers were red. The fan-like feathers of its tail are red or brown. Its beak and legs were pink, and there were three forward-facing toes and one backward-facing toe on each foot. Behind each eye was an angular black marking. "Kurrrr¡­" roared the Pokemon. It was a Pidgeot. The pressure it was releasing was something to note of. "This Pidgeot of mine is an elemental ranked Pokemon. You may not see much of a difference but just keep watching. Pidgeot! Show the little guy your moves." "Kurrrr¡­" it said and moved very fast. It was said that in ancient times, there was a Pidgeot who could fly with a speed of Mach 2 which is 2469.6 km/hr. Of course, this Pidgeot does not have that capability. But it was still fast. It flew high in the air at an impossible speed. Axel could barely see the Pokemon. Then It came vertically down and then, it disappeared! !. After what seemed like a second, a tree was cut in half, and the half that was cut flew in the air and smashed down in the ground and then the Pokemon became visible again. That move was ''Aerial ace''. The Pokemon goes to a height, then comes vertically down and then turns and sweeps horizontally and attack the opponent with its beak. "After being an elemental Pokemon, its stats are dangerously high. Why don''t you move 50 meters further. I want to show you something interesting." Said Adam with a little smile on his face. "Pidgeot , get ready ''Wind slash''!" Hearing that, Pidgeot roared and flew high in the air. Slowly its wings started to glow white and then its whole body was glowing. From Axel point of view, Pidgeot was now just a ball of light. Then the wind started gathering around it. It was like, the Pokemon was s.u.c.k.i.n.g all the air towards itself like a black hole. And then Pidgeot started to move its wings. More than 100 white slashes came rushing down the ground. When the first white slash touched the ground, there was an explosion. The white slashes continued and the ground was devastated. The trees, bushes, and rocks were sliced and scattered all over the place and there was a huge hole of around 20 meters in diameter in the ground when the attack finished. Dust arose and the place was not visible for at least a couple of minutes. When the dust settled, Adam was expecting a shocked expression on Axel''s face. But on the contrary, his face showed a calm demeanor. It was like he was thinking something hard. ''Hmm.. The attack was much more powerful than I expected. I guess he would also lose even if he goes all out.'' Thought Axel. ------------------------ The world-building will be few more Chapters. And then.... Chapter 45 - Pseudo-King ranked Pokemon Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me ---- "You have now seen the power of elemental Pokemon. Now tell me, what do you think about it?" asked Adam. "It is very strong. It has great stats and speed and that move was deadly. But the last move, ''Wind slash'' takes a lot of time to charge and your Pokemon seems very tired after that move." Said Axel "Correct. Though ''wind slash'' was powerful, it has many drawbacks. It takes time to charge. In a real battle, your opponent will not give you much time. And it is very consuming for Pokemon. Ok, now for the next rank." "Come out! Scizor" It was a bipedal, insect Pokemon with a red, metallic exoskeleton. It had gray, retractable forewings and hind wings with simple, curved venation. Its head was kite-shaped with three blunt horns extending above its forehead, and dark yellow eyes. The pressure it emitted was deadly. Axel was a bit far from the Pokemon but he could still feel the pressure. It looked like a warrior that been to countless battles. Scizor is a battle-hungry Pokemon. It only respects power. If you want to subdue it, you will have to win against it. It only submits to pure power. It is a very proud warrior-type Pokemon. "This Scizor of mine is a Pseudo-king rank Pokemon. It has been with me for a long time. You could already sense the presence it creates. It''s suffocating, isn''t it? Well, then let me show you how powerful it is" "Scizor,¡­.. ''Bug domain''" Instantly, the surrounding started to transform. A large part of the ground started having a greenish color. The grass rose a bit higher, covering half of the Scizor''s body. Its 4 limbs signed with grey, steel color. Then it started showing its moves. It would punch and kick in the air, it would dodge its head and body like an experienced martial artist. The power of whose punches and kicks were so high that, each of those attacks created grey colored air cannon. It was like Might guy punching Madara Uchiha using 8 gates (Naruto reference). Of course, the punches were not as powerful as Might guy. It was at least 100 times weak. But it was still something. But it didn''t end there. Axel could see Scizor teleporting here and there inside the domain. After some time it stopped and the domain was gone. Thinking about Scizor, Axel was very surprised. He didn''t know the power of those punches but it certainly looked very powerful. If any Pokemon was inside that domain, there is no way to win. Scizor could teleport, and punch hard inside it. "This move of Scizor, covers around 20 meters in diameter. Inside the domain, it increases the speed and power of Scizor. The domain also put a lot of pressure on the challenger. So, have you noticed the difference between the 2 Pokemon?" "Yes, that move of yours, it was fast" said Axel. That ''bug domain'' was very fast compared to ''wind slash'' of Pidgeot. It was done almost instantly. "Correct again. Wow, you are 2 for 2. If elemental Pokemon could use elemental power, Pseudo-king Pokemons have mastery over that power. It is not only in the speed of the move but also in power. You could also see that Scizor is not very tired after using that move. Scizor could use the same move many more times. Of course, with the increase in rank, its body stats also increase." "Now, for the next ranked Pokemon, I have to ask your permission." Said Adam "huh? Why is that?" asked Axel being confused. "You see, the next rank is King ranked Pokemon. The name, ''King'' is not given lightly. Most of them are practically the kings of their forest. But what separates them from the last rank is their pressure. The pressure that it emits could literally kill a normal person who does not have good mental strength. So do you want to continue or not?" said Adam. Axel was a brave young man. But not so much brave that he would risk his life. If the next Pokemon could possibly kill him, he didn''t want to see and he knew that he didn''t have good mental strength. But today, at this moment something sparked inside of him. He wanted to face the challenge. How could he be afraid of seeing such Pokemon when he wanted to be the Pokemon master. If he wanted to be the Pokemon master he would have to fight with Champion and even Master ranked Pokemon and now he wanted to back down from only seeing King ranked ? No, he had to face it. "I want to continue," he said thinking hard about it. "Haha, you are a determined lad. Ok then, come out my friend" It was a large, bipedal, dinosaurian Pokemon with a green, armor-like hide covering its body. It had two pairs of pointed teeth: one in the upper jaw and one in the lower. Several spikes of varying size protrude from the back of its head, neck, and shoulders. Both sides of its c.h.e.s.t, the center of its back, and its knees have two triangular holes. There is a gray, diamond-shaped patch of scales covering its belly, and a smaller one on its back. It had three claws on its feet and hands. A ring of spikes surrounds the tip of its tail. "Roarrrr¡­" it announced its presence. The surrounding immediately started to change. It became a bit dark, not the kind like a setting sun, but literally dark. Spiky rocks started to emerge from the ground and a heavy stand storm emerged. Axel could barely open his eyes. He didn''t know why but he instantly became nervous. The pressure the Pokemon discharged was vastly huge than compared to Scizor, but he knew his life was not in danger. Then he realized that even his mental strength was lower, his life would not have been in danger. ''Damn! Adam tricked me'' Axel shouted in this mind. After some time the sand storm disappeared. "Hahaha!!, kid, you are brave. Not many people would risk their life like you." "So, you tricked me!!?" Axel asked in a raged voice. "Yes and No. I was right when I said, the pressure emitted by a King ranked Pokemon could kill you. And it still would. But when I came here to teach today, I told Eve to control its aura. But remember King ranked Pokemon is not something to joke about. If you are not ready, you should immediately run" "Adam is this the kid that you were telling me to meet? Well he looks stupid like you, haha" "Shut up Eve. How many times have I told you not to disrespect me in front of students" shouted Adam "Huhhhh!!, that Pokemon could talk ??????" said Axel ------------------- Please Post lots of comments and what you think about it. I read the comments from chapter 1 today. Made my day. Thanks, guys for the support. From the bottom of my heart. Chapter 46 - King-Ranked Pokemon Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- "Huh! you think I am an idiot human?" saying that Tyranitar roared. The roar was so powerful that Axel was flung a couple of meters in the air. The attack didn''t hurt Axel but he was surprised by the power of that roar. Putting his hand in his head and sighing Adam said "This is my King ranked Pokemon, Tyranitar. Its name is Eve." Adam introduced his Pokemon. ''Adam and Eve huh, what an irony'' thought Axel. "There are lots of changes when a Pokemon ranks up to King-ranked. Its power in the elements improves, its body stats improve too. Besides that, it could talk in human language. Don''t think of it as a shallow development. Its intelligence could now be compared to a human. This is a huge development. And finally, it could change its surrounding by its presence alone." Axel thought this improvement was too nice. Having intelligence compared to humans will give you a high competitive advantage. Normally, Pokemons only have intelligence relating to their training, battle and eating foods. But a King-ranked Pokemon changes that. And the changes in surroundings made his body perk up. This was another development that he didn''t expect. When Tyranitar came out of the Pokeball, the surrounding became dark with sharp rock all over it. It is cause Tyranitar is a rock and dark type Pokemon. And a huge sand storm came to be which was cause of its ability, ''sand stream''. And the ''sand stream'' was a lot stronger than he expected. Adam then continued "I have already told you the 2 advantages of a King ranked Pokemon. But there is one more advantage left. You might be surprised by hearing this. When a Pokemon finally ranks up to King-ranked Pokemon, its ability gets a boost. Basically, its ability improves. How much it improves, depends on the training, mindset of Pokemon." Hearing this made Axel stupefied. Improvement in ability is a huge thing. "Let me give you an example. Dragonite has an ability called ''multiscale''. This ability halves the damage taken from the direct attacks while the user''s HP is full. But after ranking up to King ranked, the ability improves. The ability could withstand 60% or 70% of the damage. How much the ability improves will depend on the Pokemon itself." Ability is a vague topic. Let''s take this ''Multiscale'' ability as an example. This is an ability that Dragonite learns after it evolves from Dragonair. The ability blocks 50% of damage taken from direct attacks with full HP. This does not mean that the moment it evolves to Dragonite, it could withstand the 50% blow. At first, it may withstand 10% or even 5% of the blow. When mastery over the ability improves, the percentage improves and finally, it could withstand 50% of the power. After that, no matter how much you focus in the ability, the percentage won''t increase." So an improvement in ability, where Dragonite could withstand, more than 50% of the damage would be a game-changer. "Ok, this is it for showing the ranks of Pokemon. Unfortunately, I cannot show you its moves, as the move of the King-ranked Pokemon is very deadly and affect a very large area." "Ohh. Ok then" said Axel not thinking much about it. "Now let''s start about the 4 things that you would be focusing on in these 3 months. I would be telli-" "hey, what about Pseudo- Champion ranked and Champion ranked Pokemon ? Are you not going to show me those?" asked Axel. "Hmmph. You think that Pseudo- Champion and Champion-ranked Pokemon grow on trees? Now focus on the lecture. !" Said Adam ''So, he doesn''t have pseudo- champion ranked and champion ranked Pokemon. Are they that rare? He must be one of the most powerful members of Venu family.'' Thought Axel "So let''s focus on those 4 things. Let me tell you once again if you have forgotten. The 4 things are : 1. Abilities and nature of Pokemon 2. Experience 3. Aura training 4. Choosing certain moves and versatility First: Abilities and Nature. Let''s go with nature first. The nature of the Pokemon changes constantly. Nature when it is on baby stage or in puberty stage or in a.d.u.l.t stage or even when they evolve, could be different. You should have to understand the nature of Pokemon first and treat them thinking about its nature. Only then can you get your Pokemon powerful at a faster rate. Cause not every Pokemon want power and are battle-hungry. Just look at your Gogoat. Now about the abilities of Pokemon. Nowadays, a lot of young trainers just focus on the moves of their Pokemon and do not care about their ability. But if used wisely, the ability can gain you a huge competitive advantage. For example. Let''s talk about my Tyranitar, Eve. Eve has 2 abilities, one is a normal ability and other one is a hidden ability. They are ''Sand stream'' and ''Unnerve''. ''Sand stream'' creates a sand Strom in the battle and increases the special defense of Rock type Pokemon by 50% whereas ''Unnerve'' makes the Pokemon nervous. So, with those 2 abilities, it takes some time for the opposition to make a move. Due to ''sand storm'' the visibility of the challenger decreases, its max Hp also decreases little by little. And due to Unnerve, the Pokemon would not be able to move effectively due to its nervousness which is very handy in battle. So if I tailor the moves of Eve, according to its abilities, then its power will increase. Like if I use a full power ''Hyper beam''. Charging ''hyper beam'' takes time and after using the move, the Pokemon is tired for some time. But it would make perfect sense in this situation. Because of ''unnerve'' and ''Sand stream'', the Pokemon has low visibility and is nervous and because of the situation, it is confused. So there is a high chance the ''hyper beam'' will hit. ''Hyper beam'' makes Eve tired and even if the challenger survives the ordeal, it would not affect much. Cause ''sand stream'' increases the defense of rock type Pokemon by 50%" Hearing such a tactic, Axel was surprised by the potential of Tyranitar. If used well, Tyranitar could be a monster. Chapter 47 - Training Starts! Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- Seeing that Axel was in deep thought, Adam paused for some seconds. Then he continued, "let''s continue the lecture. Second: Experience I cannot say much about it in a theory class. It is something you have to learn practically. Tomorrow, when you join the group, try to battle and get as much experience as you can. The elite trainer will help you in this Third: Aura training Now, this is the most important part. It is something you lack the most. Aura training. I am not expecting you to be an Aura master in these 3 months. Every people in the world has the power to use Aura. But some are s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e to it making it easier for them to learn. While some people may never learn it in their lifetime even if they devote their major time to it. But the least I would expect from you is to train your body and your mind. If Eve was your enemy, you would have died. In the latter stages, a normal trainer could not handle the pressure from king ranked Pokemon and don''t get me started on Champion ranked or Master rank. There are some techniques in Venu family by which you could train your body and mind. I hope you get started from tomorrow." Adam was right about this. If he didn''t train his body now, it would make difficult for him to fight with higher-ranked Pokemons. So hearing this, Axel had already decided to train himself from tomorrow. Finally fourth: Choosing certain moves and versatility Let''s start with versatility first. Venu family focuses on versatility. But it doesn''t mean that you would train a single Pokemon with all the moves that you could think of. If you do that, there may be a case that your Pokemon could not master any of those moves and it will be disastrous in the long run. You should select a good team composition so that you would have a good chance to win in any given case and scenario. Coupled with a good battle strategy and mastery of certain moves of your Pokemons, you would have a competitive advantage. That is what versatility is. Now for choosing the moves. Training a move to its perfect level may take many years. So, I would advise you to choose at least 3 moves at first, which you think you would use in the long run. You should think about the moves you want to train very carefully. Think about all the battle strategy and tactics that you want to use your Pokemon for and then select the move." This seemed like a good idea. He had not thought about the long run for these Pokemons. But now he saw all those Pokemon of different ranks, he knew he should focus on their moves and most importantly, battle tactics. They talked about small things for almost a whole day. Fortunately, Adam was free today and he thought he would give some advice to the new rookie. After talking about the whole day, Axel just went to his apartment at night. As per the experience, he would not think about it now. He would first get some advice from his new group and the elite trainer on it. But he was stomped on his own training. What he wanted was to improve his body stats and mental strength immensely fast. He thought of doing the Saitama training, 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats and 10 Km run. But he thought against it. Except for jogging with his father, he had done nothing to improve his body. Suddenly doing Saitama training is not possible. Then he thought to do the Might guy training. But that would be impossible too. Carrying weights and training all day would be detrimental for his body. This was not the world of Naruto where his body was powerful, to begin with. Thinking about it he slept. Early morning, 5am, Axel had decided on today''s plan. He was to meet the group at 11 am. So from 5:30 am to 10:30 am he would just do running, push up and do some reflex exercise. He checked his stats: ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Name :- Axel Blaze Race :- Demi human Profession :- Pokemon trainer (Beginner) Title :- None Reputation :- 550* Health :- 120/120 Aura :- Locked Strength :- 12 Agility :- 24 Intellect :- 35 Leadership :- 26* Skills :- Active skills 1. Identify (Lvl 6)* Passive skills Pokemon :- Nidoran, Shedinja, Weedle*, Charmander*, Gogoat* Pokedollars :- 300000 Quest :- Main quest - 2 Sub-quest - 0 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª His reputation has increased cause of the Rookie tournament, by Koga acknowledgment and by being a member of the Venu family. His leadership stats increases, when he trains his Pokemon well. So it had increased a bit. And his intellect stat increased by talking with Mark and Adam. As he was about to go start with his training when the system sounded again. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Sub-quest 1: Increase your health to 300 and the rest of them to 50. Reward: Depends on the result Sub-quest 2: Unlock your Aura ability. Reward: Depends on the result Sub-quest 3: Evolve at least 2 of your Pokemons to rare ranks. Reward: Depends on the result Time for all 3 quests: 3 months ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Receiving the quest for the second time, Axel was very happy. ''So the quest comes from the situation.'' he thought. For the running part, Axel chose Nidoran and Charmander. Weedle could hardly run, Shedinja flies and Gogoat just don''t give a damn. He convinced Charmander to give extra milk and some delicious berries. Axel had decided that it was time for Charmander to start eating hard food. Hearing that Charmander was ready to do some stupid training. Nidoran didn''t need any motivation as it wanted to improve itself. Since Charmander''s speed is still slow, He told Nidoran to just run at Charmander''s pace while he will train at full speed. It was cause Charmander was still a baby Pokemon and Axel was going to train in the forest which has many unknown things. He first thought to increase his stamina. So, he would walk for 2 minutes and then run for 2 minutes and would continue the cycle. After doing this exercise for about 30 minutes, he was dead tired. So he thought to rest for 10 minutes. 4 minutes walk, 4 minutes run = 1 complete cycle After completing 2 cycles, his body gave up. He then realized that his body stats were pitifully low. Nidoran could train for 1 hour without any problems. And here he was tired after 16 minutes. But he didn''t give up. He knew that if he didn''t push the limits his stats would not improve. By motivating himself, he completed 1 additional cycle. And fell to the ground dead tired. Almost 3 hours have passed since he started doing this. He would rest for 10-15 minutes by doing 3 cycles. "Come on! Just 1 minute" he shouted as he was running and then ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Health has increased by 10 points Ding! Agility has increased by 1 point ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª After 2 hours, It was time to meet with the group. Chapter 48 - Shedinja, a Legendary Pokemon? Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- Axel walked to the designated training field. When he reached, he noticed that there were 3 young trainers out there. They looked very similar. All 3 of them had blond hair, a small nose, a similar height of 5 feet 10 inches. However, one was a bit small. Axel thought that they might be brothers and have the same parents. By seeing him, one of them started raising his hand. Axel also waved giving a polite response. "Are you the last member of our group?" asked one of them. "Is this group number 49?" asked Axel. "Yes" said the second one. "Then I am the one" said Axel Axel then Handshaked 3 of them. "The teacher seemed to be late. I guess we will have to wait for some time" said the third one. The last one, looked young compared to others. "Ok then, why don''t we introduce ourselves, my name is Axel Blaze, and this is my Pokemon Nidoran" Nidoran still preferred staying outside the Pokeball. "Hi, we are brothers from the same parents." Said the first one. "And what are your names?" asked Axel When Axel asked that, the 3 of them were awfully quiet. After some time the first one started introducing "I am A, he is B, and the youngest one is K" There was a second of silence and then, "Hahahha!!, really, why is the other one not ''C''.. Haha" Axel laughed. Axel was on the floor, with his hands on his stomach laughing. The tension he had felt for 2 days was gone. '' who names their kids like that? A, B, and K?. Hahah. Their parents must have some weird naming sense'' thought Axel. The 3 brothers were getting embarrassed and angry by the second. They had always hated their name and they hated it more when someone laughs at it. When the laughter stopped, the teacher could already be seen walking towards them. Axel felt a bit guilty that he laughed so hard, but he could not help it. "Hi, my name is Roman. I am an elite trainer and I will be your teacher for the next 3 months. Normally, a group consists of only 3 young trainers but today we have 4. Why don''t you guys introduce yourself and then we can get started" All of them introduced themselves and then Axel asked a question. "Sir, I wanted to ask you something. Why am I not admitted in the school but taking group classes with you?" Hearing that question, Roman smiled and then said "There are actually 2 reasons for that. The school is more about theoretical knowledge than practical ones. There are practical battles and competition but the knowledge will be on a basic level. After the school completes, we do group sessions like this to further improve your battle powers. The elders have deducted that you are already above that level. And the second reason for that would be your request to not be discriminated against as an outsider. The leader could only do this by putting you in the group." "Alright, there would be a tournament after 3 months, you guys better prepare for it. The 3 of you are brothers and know each other battle powers. Since K also just started his journey, he and Axel will battle. The battle will be 1VS1. I want you to give the best effort." Then they created a distance between, K and Axel. "First formally introduce yourself and start the battle. I will be the referee on this" said Roman. "K Venu, 13 years old" K introduced himself. Axel also copied him "Axel Blaze, 13 yrs old" "Go, Sandshrew" A small bipedal Pokemon appeared. Since Sandshrew was a ground type Pokemon, Axel decided to play with it a little. Since this is his first battle, he wanted to dominate the field and make a good impression. There was a grin on his face when he said in a low voice "Arise.." Slowly, a Pokemon with a shed exoskeleton Pokemon appeared from Axel''s shadow. "Shedinjaaa" it said with a domineering voice. "Woww! That is so cool" shouted A in excitement when Shedinja came out of the shadow. There was a massive change in Shedinja''s nature in these past couple of months. The weak, pitifully, and powerless Shedinja who just wanted to survive and be treated nicely has changed into powerful, domineering Pokemon. Shedinja was also the only one who was serious about his training. He still continued the night training. He was still using his ''shadow sneak'' inside Axel''s shadow at day. This seems to be the most likable move for Shedinja. So his ''shadow sneak'' has leveled up 2 times to level 6!. His agility and Sp. Attk has also increased to ''E++'' K has never seen such a Pokemon, but since it looked like a bug, it must be easy, he thought. Shedinja is a Pokemon that originated from Hoenn region, so it was given that he had not heard of it before. "Ok, Begin!" "Sandshrew, use Dig" shouted K, and Sandshrew immediately dug the hole and went inside. Axel noticed that the mastery over ''Dig'' was better than he expected. It was fast. Shedinja was just flying at a low height and was doing nothing. ''Hehe, idiot'' thought K and then Sandshrew came out of another hole and Shedinja was hit at a close range. The dust settled, but K could see that Shedinja was not harmed even a little bit. Seeing that, it had no effect K told Sandshrew to use ''sand attack'' and ''scratch''. The ''sand attack'' was used and it lowered the accuracy of Shedinja, at least that is what K thought. And Sandshrew used multiple ''scratch'' on the opponent. Shedinja took all the hits but it seemed that it was not having any damage. K was shocked by this. How could it not have any damage? It is not a rare-ranked Pokemon and the difference between common and uncommon ranked is not that high. Sandshrew used multiple combos of ''scratch'', ''dig'' and ''sand attack'' but nothing was happening. '' What kind of Pokemon is this'' thought K K had only taught 4 moves to Sandshrew but he didn''t want to use the 4th move cause it was very consuming for the Pokemon. But he thought to gave it a try. ''It seems normal and ground type attacks are ineffective. So let''s try this'' he thought. "Sandshrew, use ''sand attack'' and ''dynamic punch''" Dynamic punch was a fighting-type move that deals damage and confuses the Pokemon. It had an attack power of 100 and was destructive. K taught this move to Sandshrew cause it would give him more options. So, he used all of his saving and bought a TM of ''dynamic punch'' cause Sandshrew will take a lot of time to learn it. ''Sand attack'' was used, cause he wanted to lower the accuracy of Shedinja. Sandshrew crumbled his fist, and move at a fast speed, jumped and ruthlessly punched Shedinja on its face. The move was powerful. Shedinja was flown high in the air but it stabilized. It slowly went down and then flew again at a low height. Seeing his, K was devastated. ''What kind of Pokemon is this?'' shouted K in his mind. ''Nothing is doing any harm to it. Is it a legendary Pokemon?'' thought K Axel now had enough of the fun and he decided to end this match now. "Marcus, use ''hypnosis'' and then ''Dream eater''" Sandshrew was already huffing and puffing due to the last move. It could not even dodge and ''hypnosis'' made it sleep. Shedinja used ''dream eater'' 4 times and its health was already getting low now. "Marcus, use gust 2 times and end the match". And that is what Shedinja exactly did. After using ''gust'' only 1 time. Roman declared Axel as the winner. "Lie down for now. You did a good job" said Axel in a rude, strict voice. Shedinja nodded and went inside this Shadow again. "Nice battle. Hey can I ask you something?" asked K. "Yes, go ahead" said Axel. "Is your Shedinja a legendary Pokemon?" asked K. Chapter 49 - Charmanders first trainer battle Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- "No, it a Pokemon from the Hoenn region. It is immune to most of the types" Axel said. He obviously didn''t mention that Shedinja has very low HP. "Axel great battle. But I must tell you when you are in the wild, you should not be that relaxed" said Roman. He continued "K, how can you be so stupid. You completed your basic school course very fast cause you were intelligent. How can you not know about Shedinja? It is bug/ghost-type Pokemon that is immune to all of the attacks except for flying, rock, ghost, fire and dark type moves." "Wow! Really, then sir, such Pokemon must be very famous. Why is it not well known?" asked B. "Well, it has a glaring weakness. And that is its Hp is pitifully low. One hit, and it will be down. And the 5 types which work on it are super effective against it. So, not many people use Shedinja as their battle partner" said Roman. "K, use a potion on Sandshrew and then you will battle Axel once again. But this time, Axel, you will use another Pokemon. I want to see how you handle the battle with normal Pokemon. Shedinja, now, is unbeatable if paired with Sandshrew" Axel didn''t expect that. He can''t use Weedle, cause it is very weak now. Gogoat doesn''t like to fight. So only Nidoran and Charmander were left. He decided to use Charmander. He wanted to train Charmander now. This will be Charmander''s first trainer battle. After 10 minutes, Both of the Pokemons were on the battlefield. Charmander and Sandshrew. "Ok, Begin!" "Sandshrew, use ''dig''" "Charmander, start jumping backward" Sandshrew dug the whole and went inside. In the meanwhile, Charmander started jumping backward. Then Sandshrew came out of another hole, where Charmander was previously. The move didn''t connect cause Charmander was far back. This the problem with ''dig''. Axel had figured that out in the last battle with ''Sandslash'' in the Rookie tournament. Except for the few Pokemons like Ekans who is a snake type Pokemon, other Pokemon could not predict when using ''dig''. Of course, it would not matter if the mastery of ''dig'' was adequate, but Sandshrew just started learning it. So, it was on a basic level. Charmander was high in the air when Axel said "Now use ''ember''". The move didn''t connect cause Sandshrew dodged but it did its job. Dust was created making the visibility low. "Charmander, now use dragon dance" Axel needed some time to use ''dragon dance'' and it was a perfect opportunity. ''Dragon dance'' could be used 6 times. But now, Charmander could only use up to 1 time cause it just started training in it. When Sandshrew, got to see where Charmander was, it had already completed the dance. Sandshrew then used ''Scratch'' while Charmander dodged it and use ''Dragon rush''. The move connected, but it didn''t deal much of a damage cause Sandshrew''s defense is very high. But Axel used ''Dragon dance'' not for an attack but for more speed. Sandshrew speed was low, so it could not dodge much of the attack. Axel then used ember multiple times, cause Sandshrew''s sp.defense was low. And after few minutes, Charmander had won. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Ember has leveled up to 6 Ding! Dragon dance has leveled up to 3 Ding! Dragon rush has leveled up to 3 ''Hmm, so at the first trainer battle, its mastery will increase rapidly'' thought Axel. The same has happened to Nidoran. Then, Roman gave some point of advice to Axel and heavily berated K. K was not having a good day today. Making fun of him for losing 2 battles in a row was not a good start to the day. After some time, Roman started giving the lecture. He looked at each and every Pokemon of everyone and gave them advice on how to train. Axel''s view on training his Pokemon from his lecture was increasing. After 3 hours, Roman said good bye and said to meet after 3 days. The session was twice a week with Saturday being an extra holiday. "Hey, you have some interesting Pokemons. Where did you catch those?" asked A. "Yeah, I want to know more," asked B. "Where can you catch a Shedinja?" asked K. K was now hell-bent on catching Shedinja. Shedinja looked like a god to him. They talked for hours until the evening. Axel shared all his stories about how he caught his Pokemon, his training, and also all the moves that his Pokemon could learn. These 3 brothers were very friendly. He came to know that, A and B were twins and K was born 3 years later. A had 2 Pokemons; Beedrill and Nidorina. B had 3 Pokemons; Sandslash, Butterfree and Vileplume. K only had one Pokemon and that was Sandslash. A and B were 16 years old and each had a rare ranked Pokemon, Nidorina of A and Butterfree of B. Hearing that Axel finally understood what the leader told him about. ''The young generation of today are truly weak. 3 years and only 1 rare ranked Pokemon? I could have a King ranked Pokemon at that time'' Axel thought. But what Axel realized was, none of them had Bulbasaur. So he asked, "Since this is Venu family, why don''t any of you have Bulbasaur?" Axel could see a look that said ''are you that stupid?'' from the 3 brothers. But A being the eldest of the 3 (A is one minute older than B) changed his face to neutral and said "Axel, you know that Bulbasaur is a rare Pokemon right?" Axel then said, "Yes, but since this is Venu family, shouldn''t it be more common?" "Haha, you are so stupid" laughed B. But A replied to this question again "It is even rarer in the Venu family. Since this is the Venu family, the most powerful Pokemon in the forest is Venusaur. They have a locality in the south of the forest. So, we could not randomly catch Bulbasaur. It must be given by the acknowledgment of Venusaur which is very rare. The mother and the father of Bulbasaur decides its fate." Axel was surprised to hear it. He thought that he could catch Bulbasaur in the forest but not it seemed very difficult. But hearing their stories Axel thought that he might have caught a lot of Pokemons. He had 5 Pokemons and the trainer who had train for 3 years had only 3. So, he thought he would ask about this to elder Adam in their next meeting. "Hey, how did your Charmander learn ''dragon energy''?" asked K. "Well, his father is a Charizard but mother is a Hydreigon a dragon type Pokemon. So that is why he could learn dragon type moves" replied Axel "But the only Pokemon to learn ''dragon energy'' is Regidrago. So, how could he learn it?" asked K. "Regidrago? What kind of Pokemon is it?" asked Axel. Axel may have learned a lot from the books, anime and games, but he didn''t know all the Pokemons. This is the first time he had heard about such Pokemon. "Regidrago is a dragon type legendary Pokemon. It is one of the members of legendary titans. You know what legendary titans are right?" asked A "Of course, I know," said Axel. There were only 3 Pokemon he knew that are titled as legendary titans. They were Regirock, Regice and Registeel. "A, I want my Weedle to learn ''Electro web'', since you have a Beedrill, can you help me?" Chapter 50 - Weedle Training Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- "If you want to train your Weedle then you have come to the right place." Said A. "Why, does your Beedrill also know ''electroweb''?" "Yes, it does. But I didn''t mean that. You have come to the right place cause, you are in Venu family now. See there is a lot of bullshit that elders tell you. Like we focus on versatility than Pokemon types. They are not wrong in a certain sense but we also prefer grass and poison type Pokemon. It is cause, all the things that Pokemon need; evolution stones, items to help them in battle, berries, recipes, training area and training methods, there are various qualites for them. And the quality of these resources are substantial for grass and poison type. So most of us focus on grass and poison type. But Weedle line is the only exception. Venu family has a long history, so no one knows the reason for it. Weedle is a bug/poison type. So one would expect that the quality of resources for poison type must be higher than the bug type. But for Weedle it is not so. There are resources, training areas and recipes especially for Weedle and that too in higher quality. But nowadays, there are only a handful of young trainers that focus on Weedle line. They think that Beedrill is weak. But they are wrong!" "Bro, calm down. Nobody is saying that your Beedrill is weak" consoled B. A seemed to have a vendetta to Weedle haters. They were at a restaurant now. Axel had ordered alcohol but all the 3 brothers refused¡­ at first. In the world of Pokemon, the legal age of drinking is 13 years, since that is the time they start their journey. After A calmed down, he continued his little speech. "I could teach your Weedle that move since you are my brother but let me tell you about my experience on this Pokemon first." He had already forgotten that Axel was not his brother. "Every Pokemons are different. Some grow by using a vast amount of resources, some by harsh training and some by the mixture of both. Weedle comes in the first category. You may not need to spend on it now, but when it evolves to Kakuna, man! you are going to be dirt poor." He was learning new things every day. He thought he was really good with Pokemon knowledge but he was just like Ash at the beginning of his journey, a newbie. If he had not asked A about this then he would have made a huge mistake with Weedle. Axel then told his story about how he bought the Weedle recipe and asked if the prices were really accurate. "Bro, you were ripped off. Do you know the value of points? With 300 points, you could have bought that Charmander recipe." Shouted B slamming his glass on the table like the injustice was done to him. "Yeah bro, you were really ripped hicc.. Up" said K too. K seemed to be the silent type. Hearing this, the blood pressure of Axel increased rapidly. So, he lit up a cigarette. "What is that?" asked K curious. "Oh, this is what I call a cigarette. It has tobacco in it. Not too strong but it calms my nerves. I made it myself." Said Axel. Yeah, the cigarette had not been invented in the Pokemon world. Axel had the habit of smoking in his previous world, so he made it himself. It took Axel 6 years of hit and trial to get the right material and composition. But he was proud of his work. Hearing that, all the 3 brothers gave it a try and started coughing altogether. Then Axel told them ''the lost way of smoking'' and after sometime, they were enjoying it. "Wow, cigarette with a glass of whiskey just hit the right spot. You should patent this invention" exclaimed A. "Ok then, where was I? Yes, about Weedle. Weedle may not need that many resources but it is completely different when it evolves into Kakuna" ''Now he is just repeating the sentence, he really is drunk. I don''t know what mother is going to do to us tonight'' thought K. K seemed to be the only one who was not fully drunk, except for Axel. "When it evolves into Kakuna, it goes into resting period. You could use it for battle but I suggest you not do it. At that time it needs a lot of resources. It could even evolve without it but your evolved Beedrill would only be sub-par. Kakuna evolves into Beedrill within 15 days. Normally, it does at 10 days, but 15 days is the maximum. The more days it takes, the more time you could invest in it making it a powerful Beedrill. I think that your Weedle will evolve within a week. I suggest you earn as many as points as you could now in this week. You did good buying the recipe, but the materials suggested in it are very pricey. You could find the materials in the forest but those are guarded by elemental ranked Pokemon, so that is out of the option for now." After discussing with them, he came to know that, he would need 2000 points when Weedle evolves. He already had 500 points, for now, so he needed to earn 1500 points in a week. "How do I earn the points?" asked Axel "There are many ways you could earn points. Just think of it like money. Like cleaning training area will grant you 1 point per day." If he started cleaning, then it would take him 1500 days to gather the points. That is 50 months or more than 4 years. "How could I earn points in the shortest amount of time?" "There are 2 ways to do so, that is doing quest and trainer battle." Chapter 51 - Selecting Quest I got sick yesterday, so could not post the chapter. so here it is Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- "By our strength, doing the quest, you could earn from 50-100 points a day, and 10-20 points doing trainer battle. But you could also earn up to 50 points per battle if the trainer is wealthy." This does not solve his problem. Even if he earns 100 points a day, he could not gather 1500 points in a week. And farming wealthy trainers seem very unlikely. How many wealthy trainers could there with only uncommon ranked Pokemon? So, he decided that he would earn 100 points from the mission and 100 points from the trainer battle in a day. He would complete this anyhow. After talking and drinking for about 2 more hours, the 4 boys went to their respective home. Axel was so drunk that, he slammed into bed, the moment he came inside the bedroom. Early morning, 5am, Axel got up ready to train again. He planned to only run for the next 6 days. After that, he would do other exercises. This time he gritted his teeth and did it for one more hour than the previous day. This time he completed 4 cycles per rest. And the result: ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Health has increased by 10 Ding! Agility has increased by 1 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª They had decided to meet at 11 am outside the training field. Using the training field also costs points. It cost 1 point per 3 hours. Yesterday, Roman had paid for it. It might cost less but they didn''t want to waste it since they were not going to train today. Today Axel arrived first. He had to wait 10 minutes when they arrived. All of them had red eyes and disheveled hair. ''Yesterday may be too much for them'' thought Axel. But their faces were down. When Axel investigated why, he found out that, they were berated by their mother for drinking last night. Hearing this Axel started teasing them. "Haha, you guys have to get your mother''s permission to drink? Are you kids? Look at me. My mother never minds me drinking cause I am an a.d.u.l.t" said Axel. "Easy for you to say, you don''t have to go to your home to sleep," said A. And A was right. If Axel''s mother heard what he had just said now¡­. Let''s just say, his end would not be good. "Ok, let''s go," said K. "Where are we going?" asked Axel. When Axel had asked about tomorrow''s plans last night, they had just said that it would be a surprise. When they reached that place, Axel finally got what they were saying. It was a training field. But it was different from yesterday. It was not a battlefield. There were about 1 Weedle and 2 Kakuna resting, or should he say meditating? The place was a mixture of large trees, poisonous plants and one big poison swamp. The 4 boys were given a mask to prevent from getting poisoned. This looked like a perfect place for Weedle "This is Kakuna training field. The energy here is perfectly suitable for Kakuna and Weedle. Kakuna needs good food and a suitable environment to develop. We can also train your Weedle here" said A. "But why are only Weedle and Kakuna here? Isn''t Venomoth too bug/poison type?" asked Axel. "How much point does this training field cost?" "That is the point. It is absolutely free. Since almost nobody uses it, they have decided to make it free. Normally it would have cost 3 points an hour. And when your Weedle evolves to Kakuna, it would have to be here 24 hours a day for at least 10 days." That is 720 points in total. It was a huge amount. Axel realized how lucky he was. Then the training started. Nobody knows why Weedle could learn ''Electroweb''. But since bug and grass-type Pokemon are related to nature, they could manipulate infinity energy easily. And Weedle could manipulate electric energy. At least that is what Axel thought. The training lasted for 2 hours and Weedle could now get the gist of the move. They put Weedle in the training field and decided to do a quest. They went to the building of ''League Association'' and looked up in the quest. He looked up to the quest but none of them gave him 100 points a day/quest. ''Are those quest rare?'' he thought "Why are you looking at that page, look into this. We will also be participating. And we have decided to give all the points to you for this week." Said B. "I cannot take all those points. You will not be getting any reward from it." Axel shook his head. "We have been in the Venu family since birth. We have taken a lot of these quests and have earned a lot of points already. A week is not going to make any difference. So, don''t feel bad. Let''s do it" replied A. For the quest reward of 100 points, they would have to fight multiple uncommon ranked Pokemons and there was a chance of encountering rare ranked too. That is why Axel didn''t look to those quests at first. After scanning the number of quest, they found one with suitable difficulty. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Quest: A group of Mankey has disturbed the peace in the Butterfree area. 3 Mankey have evolved to Primeape. You are to catch the Primeape, control the herd of Mankey and send them back to their area. Reward: 100 points. Time for completion: 2 days ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Mankey can be a very frightening Pokemon if it was angered. Since 3 of them evolved to Primeape, they must have had a battle with Butterfree. The area of different kinds of Pokemon were all in different places. Butterfree''s and Mankey''s areas were quite near to each other. Chapter 52 - Completing Quest I would be posting 4 chapters today, as I was sick for 4 days Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- There was a particular reason for Axel to choose this mission. Shedinja was immune to fighting-type moves. Primeape could have some dark-type moves like ''night slash'' and ''payback'' but it was highly unlikely for Mankey. So they planned that, A and B will take care of 3 Primeape. K and Axel will take care of Mankey''s group. Axel pulled out all his remaining 4 Pokemons and they began to discuss the strategy. Axel wanted Shedinja to be protected at all times. So, he decided that Charmander, Nidoran and Shedinja would fight together in close proximities. Axel didn''t want to take Charmander to this quest at first cause he is still a baby but seeing K helping him out with only his Sandshrew, he decided against it. ''He would have to grow. I cannot protect him all the time'' he thought. As for Gogoat¡­ he didn''t know what to say. Surprisingly, he could not even see Gogoat''s stats. As per the system ''Gogoat has not acknowledged you as its trainer. So you are unable to see it''s stats''. This was what system has told. But he didn''t give it a serious thought. It will take time for Gogoat to be closer and he was ready to wait. Pokemon POV, "Boss, are you ready for the fight? I am ready to kick some Mankey''s a.s.s," said Nidoran. "Don''t get overconfident Nidoran, never underestimate anyone. Do you remember what I have told you?" asked Shedinja in a m.a.t.u.r.e voice. "Yeah, yeah. ''Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy''"said Nidoran shaking his head. He had heard this line multiple times from Shedinja but never understood it. "Yes, but you should also never underestimate your talents," said Shedinja with a smile on its face. "But boss, Axel says that it would be a difficult fight for you if those Pokemons know dark type move. Aren''t you scared?" asked Nidoran. "Don''t worry, even the strongest of opponents always has a weakness" "I suppose you will not be participating?" asked Shedinja. But Gogoat didn''t respond as if it had not even heard it. "But I hope you would take care of Charmander if he is in trouble." Said Shedinja. "Don''t worry about it"replied Gogoat. "I don''t need to be taken care of , I would grab that moneky''s tail and swing him round and round.. Haha" said Charmander jumping in the air. "Don''t be stupid child, you will be in Gogoat''s protection. Remember the training ok?" Said Shedinja. Charmander nodded. Shedinja seemed like a very powerful Pokemon to Charmander. ''If the Boss has told me this, then he must be correct.'' Thought Charmander. Gogoat didn''t have any friendship with others but she had a soft spot for Charmander. Since she was the one who gave him milk, she was protective of him. Pokemon POV end After an hour they reached the designated area. They could see a fierce battle happening between Butterfree and Mankey''s group. The battle started 2 days ago and it doesn''t seem to stop. Looking at their opponents, there were 20 Mankey and 3 Primeape. Axel told his Pokemons to use status moves to increase their stats. Shedinja used ''harden'' 6 times and ''agility'' 1 time (cause of low mastery), Nidoran used ''focus energy'' and Charmander used ''dragon dance'' 1 time. Looking at this, K also thought to teach Sandshrew some status moves next time. Then the group of 4 trainers rushed to the battlefield to attack. A and B used their 5 Pokemons to hold 3 Primeape. K and Axel went for the Mankey. The Mankey''s group was already injured by fighting Butterfree for 2 days but the sheer number of 20 was not to be taken lightly. Sandshrew fought with only 1 Mankey. Nidoran took 3 Mankey, the group of Charmander and Shedinja fought with 5 Mankey together and the rest were handled by the Butterfree group. Nidoran V/S 3 Mankey Nidoran used ''Venom drench'' on 3 Mankey. Since they were already tired and hypnotized from the battle, 2 of them (Mankey1 and Mankey2) were hit, and one of them (Mankey2) became poisoned. It then used ''quick attack'' to dodge Mankey 3''s ''low kick''. Axel didn''t have to instruct it cause they had already discussed the battle plan before. But at that exact moment, one of the Mankey from Butterfree''s group used ''screech''. Nidoran was confused for half a second when ''low kick'' connected. Nidoran was not affected much cause it is resistant to fighting-type moves. "Nidoran use bite" shouted Axel. At a point-blank range, Nidoran viciously bit Mankey3. Mankey is resistant to dark-type moves but it flinched. At this point, Mankey1 was ready to use ''scratch'' but Nidoran dodged it perfectly. Axel had told Nidoran to dodge the attack if it was able to and to face it head-on. "Now horn attack" Nidoran used ''horn attack'' at Mankey1, but it dodged that move and Mankey3 was hit by it. ''Horn attack'' was powered by ''focus energy'' so, Mankey3 seem to be out of the battle. But as Nidoran was having a small victory, he was flown away by few meters. Mankey2 had come and hit Nidoran with a ''thunder punch''. Axel could not wholly focus on Nidoran cause he also had to instruct Shedinja''s group. "This guy knows ''thunder punch''?" shouted Axel with a surprised look. Nidoran seemed to be partially paralyzed. Its speed has been reduced by a lot. Since it could not move fluently, ''Chip away'' was out of the question. But since ''venom drench'' lowers attack, Nidoran was only sightly injured. "Nidoran, concentrate and use ''sludge bomb''". Seeing one of their partner faint, the 2 Mankey became enraged and ran towards Nidoran. Nidoran waited for the correct time and then used the move. The move hit both Mankey. Mankey2 fainted on the spot cause it was already poisoned and Mankey1 seem to be barely holding. Nidoran then finished it with another ''horn attack''. ''Sludge bomb'' is a powerful move. Nidoran is not fully capable of utilizing its power. Though it is already lvl 10, Nidoran could only use this move 2 times, before it faints. And since Nidoran was already injured by ''thunder punch'', it was already very tired. Charmander and Shedinja V/S 5 Mankey. But Charmander picked Mankey4 by its tail, swung it round and round, and threw it towards Mankey5, 6, and 7. Shedinja was using the combination of ''shadow sneak'' and ''hypnosis'' . It would attack them with ''hypnosis'' and then hide in the shadow. After doing it 2 times, all the 3 Mankey seem to be sluggish. It then used ''gust''. ''Gust'' is a flying-type move that is super effective against Mankey. Shedinja didn''t seem to have any problems. But its stats were dangerously low, so it was already tired. It thought to finish the battle soon. When Charmander was resting for few seconds, an enraged Mankey came rushing from Butterfree''s group to attack Charmander. Gogoat was standing near Charmander. It roared, standing on 2 feet, and then ruthlessly used full-body charge and slammed the target. The body of the Mankey who was jumping was smashed by its 2 black horns and was slammed directly into the ground. The Mankey seemed to be moving no more. It was dead. ''F.u.c.k! How powerful is this Pokemon of mine? I wish I could see its stats'' thought Axel. After this, Charmander helped Shedinja and they quickly won the battle. Just when the battle ended, Axel could hear a loud roar. It belonged to B''s Sandslash. They seem to have caught all the 3 Primeape. "Your leader is gone. Surrender and leave this place and never disturb in Butterfree area. We will give you some antidotes and potions" said B in a loud voice. A lot of Mankey seemed to be poisoned due to Butterfree group and Nidoran. The Mankey group already knew that it was a lost battle. So, they did what B told and went their way. The quest was completed. Chapter 53 - Realization Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- Axel and the group were now in the canteen. They had already submitted the quest and got the points. They were now having a meal. K had also won the fight with his Sandslash. Axel may have won the battle but he was not happy. All of his Pokemons except Gogoat were injured. Shedinja was not but it was very tired of using all those moves. The level of Pokemons in DeorcLacu Holt was higher than he had expected. The Beedrills he fought before in the forest seemed to be lower leveled. ''Elder Adam was right. Nidoran has a lot of moves and no specialization. Charmander has not trained very well and Shedinja''s stats are exceptionally low. There is not a good balance in their training. I have to think about each and every one of them and come with a good training plan'' Axel had forgotten to check the notification from the system. The continuous notification had distracted him, so he had muted it. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Venom drench has leveled up to 3 Ding! Scratch has leveled up to 5 Ding! Ember has leveled up to 7 Ding! Charmander''s Attack has leveled up to E+ Ding! Charmander''s Agility has upgraded to E Ding! Charmander''s defense has leveled up to E+ Ding! Gust has leveled up to 5 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª The Pokemons were already healed. "Ok, let''s go do some trainer battle!" said A standing up. They had just been in a huge fight so Axel was not supportive of the idea. But A disagreed "Pokemons are not like humans. They heal fast and they are powerful. If you treat them like this, they will only be domesticated pets." Axel knew this. But seeing his Pokemon hurt before, he was hesitant. The battle was not very special. There were some c.o.c.ky trainers who wanted to show their power. Axel won 35 points by beating 2 trainers and the rest 65 points were contributed by the 3 brothers each wining a trainer battle. The points wagged by A and B were higher than Axel as they had rare-ranked Pokemon. K also won a sweet victory with the opponent''s Pidgey. Then the group went to Weedle to train it in ''electroweb'' again. After 1 hour, the 3 brothers and Axel separated. The 3 brothers wanted to rest. So they just went home. But Axel didn''t have such luxury. First, he replayed the battle in his mind. Gogoat seemed to be a superior rare-ranked Pokemon. When he first started his journey he planned to capture powerful Pokemons like, Dragonite or Tyranitar but now he realized that they would equally need more resources and experience. Just his Weedle was making him sweat for the whole week. He thought to give this planning phase a week until Weedle evolves. At first, he was really stressed as he would be losing 1 week of precious time just earning points. Almost 3 months have passed and the next elite 4 tournament was in 1 year and 9 months. But now his thinking m.a.t.u.r.ed. There was no way in hell he could upgrade any of his Pokemons to King ranked within 2 years. And even if he did and defeated all the elite 4 somehow, how is he going to win against the Champion? Besides it was just one week; 7 days; 168 hours. Even a lion steps back before it pounces. And he would not be wasting his time this week. He would train his body and also his Pokemon''s body as much as he can. Mastering a wrong move may be disastrous but there was nothing wrong with training the body of his Pokemon. He then chose a training field. This training field costs only 1 point a day. The reason: It was rather plain. It was a big cemented floor with nothing on it. It was a circular field, 50 meters in diameter with cemented walls covering it. They were called ''practice walls''. Pokemons could use their moves on these walls to train. The training field he saw when Roman gave the lecture was bigger than this. The field also had big rocks and trees. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Due to a suitable environment, Weedle''s health has increased by 10 Ding! Due to a suitable environment, Weedle''s defense has upgraded to E ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Axel was truly surprised by this development. The training field could increase Weedle''s stats. Seeing this, his hand changed into balled up fist. Then he raised both hands up with a force acting like he had achieved something truly great. Shedinja was giving a look that said ''Have you finally become an idiot?'' He was truly happy. One of the many reasons, why he was upset today was due to Weedle. Weedle would spend almost all of its time in the training field and he could not train it to increase its stats. Weedle''s stats were also pitiful. He wished to train its stats to a satisfactory level before evolution. He didn''t know what would happen to its stats after evolution as Weedle would be his first. But now he didn''t have to worry about it. He didn''t even have to work on it. After some small celebration, he started his work. He first gathered all of his Pokemons including Gogoat. He thought he would include it in all team activities whether it listens or not. This would increase his intimacy with Gogoat. "Listen all of you. Until the coming week, till Weedle evolves, all of us will only train our bodies. We will not practice any special or status moves. We need to improve our bodies first and I will also participate. Yes, Nidoran. I will also train with you guys. Is that clear? Marcus, is that clear?" All of them nodded including Shedinja. Chapter 54 - Training Plans Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- Charmander never wanted to train seriously. So he had taken a piece of advice from elder Adam''s book. Charmander loved eating roasted meat, most specifically, Spearow''s meat. 1 kg of Spearow''s meat cost 500 Pokedollars. So Axel made a deal with the Shopkeeper that he would buy 100kg of roasted meat over the course of 3 months. He didn''t buy all the meat at once at it would be a waste. So the shopkeeper lowered the price to 400 Pokedollars and asked for half of the payment upfront. Axel paid 20000 Pokedollars and sealed the deal. 1kg = 2 roasted piece. Axel made a deal with Charmander that it would get 2 roasted pieces in the morning and 4 roasted pieces in the afternoon if it does training seriously. The glutton happily agreed. There was a simple plan that he decided for the training. He had decided to train 4 of the 6 stats of his Pokemon namely, Health, Attack, Defense, and Agility. For Agility 1. Charmander would repeatedly throw multiple stones towards Nidoran and Shedinja and they would try to doze it. Shedinja would not be using the move ''agility'' and would purely dodge the attack. However, Axel told Shedinja to use harden 6 times cause he feared for its health. For Defense 1. For Charmander, Nidoran will be the attack with ''tackle'' and it would defend 2. For Nidoran, Charmander and Shedinja would use ''scratch'' and ''tackle'' at the same time. This was done because of Nidoran''s higher stats. 3. And Shedinja would again use ''harden'' 6 times, use ''tackle'' and ram itself on the wall. Axel didn''t have any other way to improve its defense. Nidoran''s tackle is immune to it and so was Charmander''s ''scratch''. Of course, Charmander''s ''ember'' was supper effective against it but it was a special move and it could only increase its sp. Defense. For Attack. 1. Nidoran would repeatedly use ''horn attack'' 2. Shedinja would use ''tackle'' after using ''harden'' 3. And Charmander would use ''dragon rush''. Axel took time to make this decision for Charmander. ''Dragon rush'' takes a lot of its stamina and it would be tired soon. But Axel went for it. Why? Cause ''dragon rush'' in its peak mastery is a terrifying move. For health. He also made a training plan for himself. There were 3 stages of training for him to complete. Stage 1: Running for 2 hours. Stage 2: Sit-ups, squats and crunches for 2 hours. Stage 3: Sword practice for the rest of the time. Yes, sword practice! He wanted to practice sword, not because he dreamed to become a swordmaster one day. But sword training stressed all the muscles of his body. In his previous world, he had read various light novels about how a protagonist practices sword day and night to become the supreme leader. He always wanted to practice it but he thought that people would call him crazy. So he bought a wooden sword and a practice dummy. The first was defense training. Shedinja used ''harden'' 6 times and it rammed itself against the wall. The impact was huge on Shedinja. It could only stand after 30 seconds. This was not its usual style of training. ''Do I really have to do this? I wanted to specialize in attack and speed. Axel also knows about this. Then why?'' thought Shedinja. It was starting to doubt this training method. Seeing such a look on his Pokemon''s face Axel said "Marcus, success isn''t always about greatness or intellect. It is about consistency. Only consistent hard work leads to success. How could you be my knight when you can''t even defend?" Hearing this Shedinja suddenly remembered, Shedinja''s POV Axel and his Pokemons were discussing a battle plan to defeat Mankey''s group. "¡­ and Mankey could have dark-type moves which would be highly dangerous for Marcus. So we should all be near him. If any dark type move is used, any of you who are near would take the blow for Marcus. We should also plan....." Hearing this Marcus was disappointed. ''After so much hard work, I still have to be protected. Sigh..'' And Axel ended the discussion by saying, "Ok, that would be our plan. And Marcus, stay behind I have to tell you something" hearing this I stayed while others disbursed. I looked up into Axel''s eyes "I know you didn''t like it when I told that you should be protected." "Yes, I am too weak" I said. "But remember, it is only for now. I would expect you to train harder so that you could not only protect me, but also our little family. Marcus, you would be my ''Knight''" Hearing this, I felt something. Something entirely different. I felt a sense of duty and responsibility. And it was not a bad feeling. "I will do my best, Axel. I will protect every one of you" I said with a determined voice. Flashback End ''Yes! How could I protect them if I cannot even defend them? I will have to train hard'' thought Marcus and started to train with new vigor. Nidoran was using ''horn attack'' at regular intervals and Charmander was doing the same with ''dragon rush''. The greed of delicious meat was making it do the training seriously. ''Meat! Meat! Meat!¡­'' it screamed in its mind when it didn''t want to practice. It was 2 p.m. when they started to practice. They would practice these 3 exercises, 2 hours each, and would take 10 minutes break after each completion. The second was agility training. But he soon noticed a serious problem with this training method. Charmander''s throw was not fast that could stress out Nidoran. It was still ok for Shedinja as its agility was only E++ but he knew the speed was slow for it too. After seeing that the training was not effective he told his Pokemons to continue ''defense practice'' including Charmander. He also had to train himself. The ''attack practice'' went smoothly. By this time, Axel was holding a wooden sword ready to hack the dummy. He was too excited about this training. He straightened his posture, used his footwork and hacked the dummy in its shoulder with the sword. He thought he would do 500 downward strikes today. He had no knowledge of sword practice. He just wanted to increase his body stats. But 500 downward swings seem to be too much for him at this level. When he did 50 swings, he started to feel his hand heavy. When he did 100 swings, his hand started to burn. 200 swings, his entire body hurt. 300 swings, he was already panting on the ground. Swing sword seemed harder than he imagined. Chapter 55 - Systems effect Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- Axel was laying in the cemented ground, looking at the sky and taking rushed breaths. ''500 swings seem to be hard. I should stop for today and not overdo it.'' He thought. But when he saw his 3 Pokemons doing their ''attack practice'' with a full effort he felt ashamed. Ashamed of his earlier thought. After few minutes, he got up to do the rest of the exercise. He resolved to complete 500 downward swings. Seeing this behavior of Axel, there was a change of expression on Gogoat''s face. The Pokemons completed their training at 8 p.m. However, it took up to 9p.m. for Axel to complete his 500 swings. They rested for another 30 minutes and Axel gave potions to his 3 Pokemons. It may not be needed but he didn''t want any lasting damage. They ate their food and went to sleep. While on bed Axel un mute the notification again to see the progress. He now had the habit of doing this. A sudden notification would just disrupt his concentration. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Your health has increased to 160 Ding! Your strength has increased to 15 Ding! Shedinja''s tackle has leveled up to 5 Ding! Shedinja''s Defense has leveled up to F+ Ding! Shedinja''s Attack has leveled up to F+ Ding! Charmander''s dragon rush has leveled up to 4 Ding! Charmander''s defense has leveled up to E++ ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª None of Nidoran''s stats or moves has leveled up. But he expected it. Nidoran''s stats were already higher than the rest so it would not increase by just a day. Still, he was happy with the result. With this rate of progress, he could be a powerful trainer within 3 months. He may have 1 rare-ranked Pokemon or may be 2. His hope was on Nidoran and Shedinja. He decided to train in another field that would help in this Pokemon''s agility. But that would be tomorrow''s job. Now he feels asleep. After 3 days, Axel and the group had just completed their quest and battle routine. Axel had amassed 840 points in these 4 days which was very high if comparisons were to be made with normal trainers. Normally, the young trainers avoid doing quests every single day. The Risk of dying and getting your Pokemon heavily injured was high. So, they tend to do normal chores and earn points at a slow speed. However, the batty group of Axel and the 3 brothers did the opposite. It was a surprise that no one had received long-lasting injury. Now, it was 3:00pm and he was ready for his Body stats training. He did this training 2 times a day. In the morning, from 5 am to 11 am, and in the evening, from 3pm to 9pm. ------------ ------------ Ding! Your Weedle is going to evolve. This is the first Pokemon that is evolving due to your care. You will get some generous rewards. It is recommended for you to be near it when it evolves. Otherwise, your relationship with it will be bad or even hostile. ------------- To say that Axel was surprised by this notification would be an understatement. He was really happy with this. This was his first evolution and the system said, he would get some rewards. But when he read the last line, he was face changed from happy to anger and nervous. Axel was very far from the Weedle''s training field. Even if he uses all the available means, it would take him 15 minutes to reach there. Venu family was very huge. By that time Weedle would have already evolved. He knew that when his Pokemon evolves, he needed to be close to it at that time. He had estimated that Weedle would evolve after 3 days but it was evolving now. There was no way to accurately estimate the time of evolution. "Damit! Is there no other way?" Axel shouted when he was running towards Weedle. ----------- ----------- Ding! A solution has been found. Do you want to forcefully stop the evolution? Doing this you would get a reward and permanent punishments. ------------ "Why is the punishment permanent? Ok stop the evolution" ------------ ------------- Ding! There are 1 reward and 3 punishments -------------- Axel let out a sigh of relief. But when he saw the notification again, he was enraged. "3 Punishments!! But why?" --------------- --------------- Ding! The reward and punishments are¡­.. Chapter 56 - Punishments and reward Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! The reward and punishment are: Reward: You will have the choice to extend the time of evolution of your Pokemon to certain days or up to certain stats depending on the situation. Punishment 1: The IVs and EVs information will be removed permanently from the system page of Pokemon Punishment 2: One of the rewards for your 3 sub-quest will not be given. Punishment 3: Unknown punishment. Could be activated at a random time. This series of reward and punishments made his blood boil. He was downcasted by the situation. The first punishment was harsh. He could no longer see the information of IVs and EVs now. As for the second punishment, he would be losing something but it may not be that bad. It may be a couple of Pokedollars or something unnecessary. He didn''t know what reward he would get, so he would worry about that in the future. The final punishment was what made him fear the system. It was unknown and it could be activated at a random time. What if the system decided to kill his parents or his Pokemons? Or what if it decided to stop all the evolution of his Pokemon permanently? Or worse, what if it canceled his subscription on this world and send him to Earth? Axel was never afraid of this system and he frankly didn''t even care, until now. The reason: system never actively altered his life. It just gave him information. Even the reward of The Rookie Tournament was given not by the system personally but by Mr. Koga. So, he thought it never had such power. But now, it directly stopped the evolution of Weedle. As for the reward, it was sub-par at best. He could get an ''Everstone'' to do that. All this happened cause he didn''t focus on Weedle''s evolution and he hated himself. "What is the maximum time, until Weedle evolves?" ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! The maximum time for Weedle''s evolution is 3Days: 2 hours: 12 minutes: 56 seconds ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª He was almost quarter way through Weedle''s location, so he decided to check Weedle before resuming his training. Weedle seemed to be fine with no problems. Today was the day, where Roman would give his lecture again. The past 3 days had been hell for Axel and his team. But they have improved by a sizable amount. Axel could now easily do 500 downward swings. Yesterday, he completed 600 downward swings and 50 upward swings. ''Hmm.. I have improved a lot since that day. I wonder the cause? Maybe a human body in the Pokemon world are stronger?'' Axel thought. But what Axel didn''t realize was, not everyone could do it. After 3 days, Today, Axel and the group didn''t go to do the quest or the battle. Why? It was because of Axel''s total points:2120 Doing such a risky thing for a week, the young trainers in the Venu family started calling them ''Crazies''. Because they were crazy. It was a miracle that nothing bad had happened to them. Weedle had successfully learned ''electroweb''. It was now 12 p.m. in the afternoon and 5 hours were left before Weedle evolves. Axel planned to train him and his Pokemon for 2 more hours before meeting ''Weedle''. They had been training since 5 a.m. in the morning. Shedinja now had to use ''hypnosis'' on Charmander and Nidoran during ''agility'' training. This was done for 2 reasons. One, it would increase the resistance on Charmander and Nidoran, and two, it would be extra hard. The agility training field had many options but Axel only trained his Pokemons in only one aspect. And that was reflex. The agility machine would throw a small round ball at a surprising speed to Pokemons in different directions and they would have to dodge it. For ''defense'' training, Nidoran would now use ''focus energy'' with ''tackle'' to Charmander. Shedinja added ''agility'' when Nidoran was defending. As they were training, somehow, the agility machine stopped. Axel tried to close it and open it again but it would not budge. It seems the machine was broken and now they would have to stop ''agility'' training. But then something unexpected happened. Gogoat stood up and went near the small round balls that. It suddenly kicked the ball with its front right leg. The small flew at a straight line at an impossible speed and struck the cemented wall. There was a small dent and some cracks on the wall now. ''Such power!! She is a monster. Thank Arceus, she is on our side'' Axel thought. Because the dented wall was in the opposite direction of the group. "Do you want to help in ''agility'' training?" Gogoat didn''t say or do anything. She just stood there like a statue. "If you want, you can. But just reduce the power of your strike." Like that, Gogoat became the next agility machine. She copied almost all of the things that the machine did before. ''Damn, if you wanted to help, why didn''t you do it sooner? I would have saved some point'' After that, the training went smoothly, and they reached Weedle. Chapter 57 - First Evolution Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- The Crazies with all their Pokemons were inside the Weedle''s training field. This was Axel''s first evolution so he was very excited. The 3 brothers wanted to see their hard work come to fruition. They helped Axel gather the resources for Kakuna, however, they wanted to witness how powerful will Kakuna become after it evolves. Nidoran''s and the group were huddled around Weedle since they had not met it for quite some time. But Axel intervened "Guy, let Weedle be alone. It is about to evolve, it needs all the concentration and peace it can". Hearing this the group went near Axel not disturbing Weedle. "Weedle are you ready?" "Wee.." ''System, start Weedle evolution'' hearing this, the system gave the confirmation and white light started to envelop Weedle. It glowed for 30 seconds, then the ball of light started to change its shape. After the shape-changing finished, it shone really bright for few seconds and the light disappeared. But instead of Weedle, there was another Pokemon. It was a green, cocoon-like Pokemon. It had a dome-shaped head and black, triangular eyes with glowing white pupils. It had two scythe-like arms in the middle of its body. It was a shiny Kakuna ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Axel was really happy, seeing his first evolution. He ran towards Kakuna to grab him, but Kakuna was now giving a stranger vibe. Axel stopped 2 feet next to it and stared at its eyes. Kakuna did the same. "Congratulations Kakuna. You have evolved and became much stronger.", beamed Axel. Hearing that, Kakuna seemed to have realized where it was and seeing Axel happy, it jumped to Axel''s arm and hugged him. Weedle was a shiny. Shiny Pokemon was normally looked down by their fellow Pokemons in the wild due to their different color. So Weedle had to face a lot of bullying in the forest. But after becoming a part of Axel''s team, its life had completely changed. It had good team mates who it could rely on. It was happy with its life now. But after evolving, its past trauma had came to light. It felt superior and powerful and felt huge anger towards the world. But hearing Axel''s voice had calmed it down and brought it to reality. This is what happens when a Pokemon evolves. Its inner dark d.e.s.i.r.e rises so a competent trainer must control it at that time. But Kakuna''s case seemed pretty easy, as Axel had been one of its life-changing person. Axel then immediately looked at Kakuna''s stats ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon''s name :- Kakuna (Age- 3 months) Ability :- Shed Skin Hidden ability :- None Potential :- Red Health :- 80/80 Attack :- F Agility :- F Defense :- F Sp. Atk :- F Sp. Def :- F Moves: Poison Sting (Lvl 3), String Shot (Lvl 4), Bug Bite (Lvl 3), Electroweb(Lvl 2)*, Harden (Lvl 1)* ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª But he was satisfied with Kakuna''s growth. Normally, Kakuna had an average height of 2 feet. But his Kakuna was more than 3 feet. This showed that the Kakuna training field had improved its powers. Weedle''s stats before its evolution was: ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon''s name :- Weedle (Age- 3 months) Pokemon Nickname :- None Ability :- Sheild Dust Hidden ability :- None Potential :- Red Attack :- E++* Agility :- E++* Defense :- D* Sp. Atk :- E++* Sp. Def :- E+* Moves: Poison Sting (Lvl 3), String Shot (Lvl 4), Bug Bite (Lvl 3), Electroweb(Lvl 2)* ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Weedle had grown in this week. All of its stats had increased but not its moves. It was given as it didn''t practice the moves except for ''electroweb'' But looking at Kakuna, Axel came to a horrible realization. Since he now had an option to extend the time for his Pokemon, he could do the same for Kakuna. Axel only had resources for 15 days, as it was the maximum time needed for Kakuna to evolve. But now, it seemed it needed more of the resources which his points could not afford. ''System, what would be the maximum time for Kakuna to evolve?'' ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! That information could only be provided at the time of Kakuna''s evolution. But when a Pokemon is going through its next evolution or final evolution, the time would be extended much more. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ''Now that is a pickle. How am I going to get more points? I cannot waste time only doing quests and battles. I also need to train'' Axel was mumbling to himself. Seeing just such a look of Axel, Charmander went to him and put its burning tail right above its head. Immediately after that, Axel had a great idea. ''Hmm. Does Charmander want to put some light inside my head? Well, it did work. Is this its special ability? Nah, I am thinking too much'' thought Axel. Axel was going to make 2 separate visits. One for his current problem and another for his personal training. ''Knock.. Knock'' "Come in. It is open". A guy with a white-silver hair entered the room. The room was filled with lab equipments. The broken glasses were littered around the room and the boy could smell something being burned. "Ahh, Axel, long time no see. Don''t worry, it is just another failed experiment of mine. Let''s talk outside." "Very well. It seems you have experienced a lot of failed experiments", remarked Axel looking around the room "Yeah, it is a curse for us researchers. Your information on ''water cycle'' gave me some new ideas. But you can see the results are not very promising" By this time they were already outside the room. There was a wooden table attached to the ground and a couple of chairs. Mark poured some coffee on the cups and they started talking. Axel had stopped calling him elder due to the fact that Mark always acted as a friend and Axel had also helped him in his research. "Oh, and what would that be. I am interested" stated Mark sipping his coffee. "As you know, I am doing research on another eeveelutions. I think my research is promising and we can get the result in a very short time. I would like you to be a part of it" "Are you serious? You do know it is your research" exclaimed Mark. Normally, a researcher would not include others in their work. So it came as a surprise to Mark. "Yeah, with your information on infinity energy, I believe that we could complete the research. But I would need some compensation." "And that would be?" "I need 60000 points as initial payment. When we publish the work, our contribution in it will be 50-50" said Axel in a confident manner. "Hmm, let me remind you I am a researcher and you are an assistant researcher. You also got the information on infinity energy from me. So, why should I give you compensation" "well, first of all, it is only a piece of information, not your research. I would have got that anyway as I am a member of Venu family. And as for the assistant researcher part, I could just publish an already proven theory with some modification to become a researcher. The reason I had not done so is that, I want to make a good impression on my first theory" "Alright, I am sold. But even I don''t have 60000 points to give you. I could only give you 20000 points and I am not the person who wants to haggle. So that is my final offer" said Mark. "Done! We will begin our research from tomorrow" acknowledged Axel shaking Mark''s hand. Chapter 58 - Second Visit Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- There were 4 reasons as to why Axel decided to cooperate with Mark. First of all, for the points. He was in dire need huge amount of points and this seemed to be the only viable option for him. He could not spend all of his time doing quests and battles. As for the second point, it was Mark himself. Mark was a brilliant researcher and his input could help him in the research. He knew how to evolve Eevee but he didn''t know the scientific process of it. Thirdly, Axel would not be spending all his time doing research these 3 months. Most of his time would be spent on training. He would only spend a couple of hours per day. That is where Mark comes in. And finally, the most important reason would be the influence. If his research became successful, Venu family could gather a huge influence in Kanto region, and Angela and the elders would owe him a lot. He may also get lots of benefits and resources from this which is exactly what he lacked right now. After concluding the meeting, Axel made his way for his second visit. The second person was none other than Adam. "Hey kid, are you looking for me?" asked Adam. Axel went to the reception of the school and inquired about Adam. Turns out he still seemed to be in the school. So the receptionist called Adam. "Yes, I came here to ask a favor from you." "Alright, why don''t we talk in my office" They both went to Adam''s office. It was on the first floor of the building. The room didn''t seem to be big. There were a lot of books in the cupboard, a luxurious table with 2 chairs on either side. The color of the room was a mixture of white and orange. After they made themselves comfortable, Adam continued "So, what kind of favor are you expecting from me. Mind you I always believe in equal trade" "I wanted to practice Aura. I wanted that training book from you. You must have a spare copy of it right?" This was the reason he came to visit Adam. Axel had also tried to train his intellect. He didn''t go to the library, but he read some of Mark''s research that he received. But no matter what, his intellect didn''t seem to increase. So, he thought to give a try to Aura. "well, you are right. I certainly have a copy. But you should know that you could buy it with 5000 points. So, why should I give it to you? Besides, what can you even trade in return?" "You should know, that I don''t have 5000 points right now. But what I can assure you is that I could learn Aura within 3 months" "Ok, but what would you do if you can''t do it?" inquired Adam. "If I can''t do it, then I would return 10000 points to you as an interest" "No, points don''t matter much to me," said Adam shaking his head. "Then what do you want?" Adam thought for few seconds and said "If you can''t do it then you would have to be a permanent member of Venu family" Now it was Axel''s time to be surprised. That was a lot to take in. He had lived here for a week and he didn''t find any negative things that would make him leave the family. But being a permanent member of the Venu family was a different matter. But after thinking for some time Axel replied "Alright" and shaked Adam''s hand. "Do you want to draft a contract on this?" Axel asked. "No, I believe in the words of man. I know you would not back on the deal" He got the training book and left the building. It was already 7 p.m. in the night. The Crazies were celebrating Axel''s first evolution. They had already mastered ''the lost way of smoking''. "Damn! Your Kakuna seems to have good potential. It is bigger than an average Kakuna. You are going in a good direction, I tell you" stated B after gulping down the beer. "Yeah, when your Beedrill evolves, it would be one of your most powerful Pokemon" added A. Meanwhile, K was thinking something deep. Over the days, K had subconsciously thought of Axel as his rival. They were of the same age and Axel seemed to have powerful Pokemons compared to him. K slammed the beer glass on the table and announced "I have decided to get a Bulbasaur !!" "Bro, you know how hard it is to get one. Why don''t you catch a Weedle like us? It would be easy to raise." said A. "No, I have decided. I have only 1 Pokemon now. If Axel can raise 5 Pokemons on his own, why can''t I do that to 2. Besides, you know I have a good chance of getting one" That was right. K may not have a powerful Pokemon but he had graduated early and had not asked for any rewards till now. He could get a Bulbasaur if he played his cards right. "Bro, just calm down and puff this cigarette first. Now tell me why do you want to have Bulbasaur so much if it is so hard?" said Axel calming down K. He knew why K decided this. It was obviously because of him. "Bro, you don''t know much but the resources, training methods of the Bulbasaur line are the highest in Venu family. There are practical training methods for each of its moves and tactics of its battle plans. One of the Pokemon has this. And I always wanted to get a Bulbasaur since I was a child. Even the most Powerful Pokemon In Venu family is a Venusaur which is a Champion ranked Pokemon" Chapter 59 - Wood Element 5 chapters have been added making it 15 advanced chapters in *******. some of you, my readers wanted this so worked hard for a week to make it happen. The increase in chapters for each tier are: For official patron: 2 to 3 For All access patron: 5 to 7 For VIP patron: 10 to 15 What can I say, i really love you guys. Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- It was 5 a.m. in morning. Axel was ready to start his new training session. Last night, when K started to list the edge of having a Bulbasaur, Axel also start to think of the possibilities. This favorite Pokemon had always been Charizard. But his second favorite would always be Bulbasaur. And the best place to catch it would be here, in Venu family. Dreaming about having Bulbasaur, Axel went to meet with the group. Today, the Crazies have decided to meet early at 5:30 a.m. The 3 brothers were never early birds but seeing Axel getting stronger right in front of their eyes, they had decided to change their routine. However, they arrived late at 6 p.m. "I want to say something before we start. I also want to get a Bulbasaur" announced Axel in a loud voice. "That''s the way to go" remarked K by patting his shoulders. But the other 2 were surprised. "Now you also want a Bulbasaur, do you know how hard it is to get one? No wonder they call us Crazies" said A "Ok, guys calm down. Now tell me, Axel, why do you also want a Bulbasaur?" said B. Today he seemed to be the m.a.t.u.r.e one. "Hearing all those things from K yesterday made me realize that it would be awesome to have one. The only hurdle is it is very difficult to get it. I think if we try our best, we could get it". A and B sighed shaking their head. They knew that Axel was a stubborn one. Last week, Axel had risked his life just to get a couple of resources. Of course, they were also not mellow. "Do I have to collect more points?" "No, there is no need for points when it comes to catching a Bulbasaur. There are 3 conditions that you would need to fulfill: 1. You would have to be sufficiently powerful to protect it in the wild. In other words, you must have at least 1 rare ranked Pokemon at your disposal. 2. You must get approval from the Champion ranked Venusaur, parents of Bulbasaur and the Bulbasaur itself. This is not that difficult. The Champion ranked Venusaur is the leader''s Pokemon. So, if you could convince the leader, then it''s in the bag. Finding out parents of Bulbasaur who would approve would not be difficult and the easiest is to convince Bulbasaur. 3. And lastly, the most difficult one. You must have unlocked your Aura or psychic ability. This is due to the fact that in most cases a trainer who had awakened an aura could be powerful in the latter stages. Don''t get me wrong, a trainer without having an Aura could be very powerful too." "So, the aura is the most difficult condition huh" mumbled Axel thinking about the matter. "It is not only that. Even if a trainer awakened his Aura it would be in his 20s. This will be the stage where a trainer would have varieties of powerful Pokemon at his disposal. So, it would be unlikely that he would want a Bulbasaur at that point." Hearing all these conditions would make one disappointed or disheartened. But Axel, on the contrary, was beaming with excitement. He already had the Aura training book. He would most likely have a rare ranked Pokemon after 3 months. And coming to the approval part, he would leave that to fate. He believed that ''if a person wants something with all their heart and dedicate their concentration in achieving it, even the heaven would work its a.s.s off to make it come true''. He must already have a rare ranked Pokemon and must unlock aura as per the system''s quest and Adam''s bet. So he would just give his best. ''If Pidgeot, a flying type Pokemon could use wind energy, why can''t Bulbasaur use wood energy. If Venusaur could only be Hashirama Senju was a character of Naruto world. He was one of the most powerful characters and was known as ''God of shinobi''. And he also used the Wood element. Wood element may seem like a crappy element unlike fire and lightning, but if used well, it could be one of the most versatile elements. Axel shared his Aura training book with the group and told K he would lend it to him after he finished reading it. K was ecstatic when he heard it. K had also decided to catch another Pokemon until he got Bulbasaur. He had settled on Pidgey. He would need a flying-type Pokemon on the latter stages and Pidgey seemed to be the most suitable for him. He knew Pidgey could be very deadly as he had seen Adam''s Pidgeot. Apprehending this, the group decided to catch a Pidgey in the first half of the day. Axel decided to give K some help, since he could ascertain the potential of Pokemon on a more deeper level. Unlike other Pokemons who had their own area, Pidgey was a common sight in the forest. Pidgey is a Pokemon that is not aggressive and are pretty docile. But not all of them were like that. Before going on this mission, Axel had said to K that he would help him catch Pidgey. He also told the group that he had quite an insight into Pokemon''s potential just by observing it. He said it was a trait of being an assistant researcher. The brothers believed him. But the plan to spend only half a day in this mission had extended to evening. There were a lot of Pidgey in the jungle. Some of them were guarded by their final evolution. But Axel was not satisfied with any of them. Axel at least wanted purple [advanced] or brown [Monstrous] potential Pidgey. But till now, he had only found 5 Red [advanced] potential Pidgey. (A/N: please read the auxiliary volume if you are confused about potential ranks of Pokemon) The group was getting tired of Axel''s antics. But seeing such a serious face of Axel working hard for their brother, they kept quiet. Axel wanted K to have Pidgey with good potential. The brothers had done a lot for Axel. He just wanted to repay the favor. It was now almost 6 p.m. The group had now decided to continue it tomorrow. They thought to give this mission 30 mins before packing back home. But after 5 minutes, they found another heard of Pidgey. When Axel checked their stats, he had a smile on his face. Chapter 60 - Result of Practice Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me --- "K, catch that one. It has a high Potential" Axel said suddenly. The group decided to chase out other Pidgey and catch the one Axel had said. But K decided against it. Pidgey is a docile Pokemon and it is very close to its group. If they did that, then it would be like kidnapping the Pokemon. K and Pidgey would have had a good relationship if that happens. So, K decided to talk to the Pidgey and convince the Pokemon to join him. It took around 30 minutes but the Pidgey decided to join K. The Pidgey said goodbye to its gang. After some tearful farewell, K caught the Pokemon inside his Pokeball. The group ran out of the jungle since it was not safe at the night. After they reached, the group immediately went to test the potential of Pidgey. The Pidgey was of advanced potential. K was very happy when he saw the result. He repeatedly thanked Axel for his help. K''s Pidgey had purple [advanced] potential. It was the same potential Nidoran had. It was hard to find an advanced potential Pokemon in the wild. So, K was very happy. The group celebrated K''s new Pokemon with some drinks and food. They decided to call it a night. ¡ª¡ª¡ª Axel and the brothers were already on the training field. They had decided to train seriously from today. Axel had already made training plans for each of his Pokemon. But first, he looked at his stats again after training for a week. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Name :- Axel Blaze Race :- Demi human Alignment :- Venu family Profession :- Pokemon trainer (Beginner) Reputation :- 700* Health :- 180/180* Aura :- Locked Strength :- 25* Agility :- 29* Intellect :- 35 Leadership :- 32* Skills :- Active skills 1. Identify (Lvl 7)* Passive skills None Pokemon :- Nidoran, Shedinja, Weedle, Charmander, Gogoat Quest :- Main quest - 2 Sub-quest - 3 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª All of his stats except for Intellect had increased. Strength increased the most, as it was the lowest stat and easy to train. His only skill had also leveled up once. And after doing quests and battles, there was some increase in his reputation. He selected Nidoran to see its stats ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon''s name: Nidoran (Age- 5 months) Pokemon Nickname: Megalania (Locked) Ability: Poison point Potential: Purple Health : 170/170* Attack: C+* Agility: B* Defense: C++* Sp. Atk: D Sp. Def: E+ Moves: Chip away (Egg move) (Lvl 6), Sucker punch (Egg move), Venom drench (Egg move) (Lvl 3), Tackle (Lvl 11)*, Poison sting (Lvl 3), Peck (Lvl 3), Focus energy(Lvl 8)*, Horn Attack (Lvl 14)*, Rest (Lvl 6), Bite (Lvl 4), Quick Attack (Lvl 2), Sludge Bomb (Lvl 10) ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª All the stats and moves on which it focused had improved by leaps and bounds. Agility was now B which was very high as per Axel''s opinion. Shedinja''s ''hypnosis'' had helped in this. Tackle had only leveled up once as Nidoran never used full force when hitting Charmander during ''defense'' class. But there was a massive increase in the level of ''horn attack''. Axel would also give Nidoran some tips when using the move. Axel then looked at Charmander''s stat ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon''s name: Charmander (Age- 1 month) Pokemon Nickname: None Ability: Blaze* Hidden ability: Solar Power (Locked) Potential: Black Health: 130/130* Attack: D* Agility: D* Defense: D+* Sp. Atk: E++ Sp. Def: F Moves :- Dragon dance (Egg move) (Lvl 3), Dragon rush (Egg move) (Lvl 10)*, Dragon Energy (Egg move), Scratch (Lvl 7)*, Ember (Lvl 7) The changes were almost the same compared to Nidoran. Its stats had increased. ''Scratch'' and ''Dragon rush'' had also improved. ''Dragon rush'' was a difficult move to master. It takes a lot of energy and Charmander had to rest after using it 2 times. He didn''t care for ''scratch'' too much but training in it would harden its claws which would be good for future moves like ''Dragon claw''. It had also unlocked its ability, ''Blaze''. Blaze increases the attack power of fire type move by 50% when its maximum Hp goes down below one-third. This came as a surprise. It was during defense class when Nidoran was hitting it with ''tackle'' . The ability activated and it raged for some time. Turns out unless you master the ability, it would lose focus which was not very desirable. Now, finally for the boss of the group..... Chapter 61 - Research about Shedinja ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon''s name: Shedinja (Age- 1.6 years) Pokemon Nickname: Marcus Ability: Wonder guard Hidden ability: None Potential: Red Health: 30/30 Attack: D Agility: D+ Defense: E++ Sp. Atk: E++ Sp. Def: F Moves: Hypnosis (Lvl 9)*, Gust (Lvl 5), Harden (Lvl 10 max), Shadow sneak (Lvl 6), Endure (Lvl 11), Dream eater (Lvl 6), Tackle (Lvl 8)*, Agility (Lvl 3), Gravity (5%) ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Shedinja''s improvement was huge. Its attack has increased from F to D. 3 of its stats had increased except for health. Among the group, Shedinja was the one who trained very seriously. Axel had to stop it to rest for some time. But what he realized was, the stats of Shedinja and Charmander were different. Shedinja and Charmander both had Attack ranked D. But Shedinja''s attack was much higher than Charmander. ''Hmm.. is it because Shedinja is an evolved Pokemon?'' thought Axel. It has been more than a week since he came to Venu family. His Weedle had evolved, he had trained his body stats and had improved his Pokemon''s base stats too. And now, he had already decided on the training plan for each of his Pokemon. First, training plan for Shedinja Shedinja may now be the boss of the team but after researching it he found something. Shedinja was a high-maintenance Pokemon. It had a lot of disadvantages. Sure, its wonder guard ability is arguably the most powerful ability to exist but it also had very little Hp. The first problem with Shedinja was indirect moves. Moves like ''hail'' or ''stand storm'' affects it. And since it had a very low Hp, it was possible that the move could defeat it. When a Pokemon ranks up to ''King'' tier, it could subconsciously change its surrounding to its advantage. Axel saw that with Adam''s Tyranitar. So, if Axel fought with king ranked, ground-type Pokemon, ''stand storm'' would be a common occurrence. The second problem was its Potential. Yes, potential. Since Shedinja needed a lot of defense, agility and protective type moves to fight, its low potential hinders its moves mastery. The potential of a Pokemon could be increased, but there was a very low chance. Shedinja did increase its potential once, but it would be very unlikely to happen another time. There are 2 ways a Pokemon could increase its Potential. They are, resources, comprehension and evolution. If a Pokemon had not fully evolved, and there is a good resource available like ''miracle seed'' for grass type, during the evolution if it consumes the resources, there is a certain chance it could increase its potential. But to have that, the Pokemon must have good comprehension. However, the chances of having good comprehension were very low. A normal Pokemon could not even think like a human until it fully evolves. The other way for a Pokemon to increase its potential was to have a high comprehension ability. That was what Shedinja did. It was due to Shedinja''s nature. Since it was a weak Pokemon, it always thinks before it acts. And the last problem was Shedinja itself. It was in its final evolution and an uncommon ranked Pokemon. If Axel had caught it when it was a Nincada, then there would be a lot of things that Axel could to do improve its potential and abilities. But that was not the case now. But Shedinja had some good points too. At least his Marcus. Marcus was different than normal Shedinja. It could move part of its body. Adam also had pointed this out. Cause normal Shedinja could not do it. It could not even blink its eye. It just floats. When Nincada evolves, on some rare occasion, it separates into 2 different Pokemons: Ninjask and Shedinja. But as per Bruno, Ninjask died immediately and only Marcus lived. Shedinja is a hollow Pokemon. When 2 Pokemon Ninjask and Shedinja come into existence, the soul of Nincada separates into 2 and Ninjask gets the better half of the deal. Ninjask gets a body with bones and muscles but Shedinja doesn''t have any of those. It becomes completely hollow. Shedinja also had an incomplete soul but Ninjask gets all the soul power. But in case of Marcus, it seems that it got all the soul of Ninjask. That was why Marcus could move part of its body. It could blink its eye, cry some tears and even smile sometimes. He didn''t know what advantage it had, compare to normal Shedinja but he had a feeling that this could be a turning point for Marcus. But he knew something. Marcus was a variant and a good variant if Bruno was right about his story. Variants are those Pokemon who are different than their normal counterpart. It was different from shiny. It could be a good variant having an advantage over its normal counterpart or a bad variant who are weaker than its normal counterpart. Leaving all that aside, Axel first listed out all of Shedinja''s good moves. They were: X-scissor, Shadow sneak, shadow claw, shadow ball, will o wisp, toxic, protect, heal block, baton pass, sword dance, Giga impact, secret power, ally switch and final gambit. He had thought hard for a week and had decided that Shedinja would be an assassin type Pokemon. It would have high agility and attack. It would also train it in moves like ''protect'' to be on the safe side. He asked Shedinja about this plan and readily agreed. Axel thought hard about all its future moves but he didn''t come to a full conclusion. But he decided to not think about some of these moves. ''Shadow claw'' cause it a physical type move and Shedinja should be in close proximity to use it. ''Toxic'', ''heal block'', ''baton pass'', and ''secret power'' would also be ticked off. He just could not picture Shedinja with those moves. And ''Final gambit'' was a no-go too. The move ''final gambit'' was different from the anime and games. This moves drastically decreases the user''s Hp and the target would feel the same pain that the user felt. That means if the user became seriously injured, the target would too be in that state. But the pickle was Shedinja would absolutely die when it uses ''final gambit'' cause of its low Hp. It may be able to kill a Champion-ranked Pokemon too if it used the move but Shedinja too would die. So Axel canceled this move out of his mind. A/N: How do you like the story so far? do comment me and if you have any view relating to it, do let me know. ------- Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me Chapter 62 - Plans For now, Axel decided to focus on 4 moves. They were: 1. Shadow sneak. This move was selected for 2 reasons. 1, it was Axel and Marcus''s favorite move. And 2, it is pretty useful for assassins. 2. Agility. Just so that, Shedinja could increase its speed to a great height. 3. Gravity, for crowd control. If Shedinja could create its own domain like Adam''s Scizor with gravity, agility and shadow sneak, it would be unstoppable. 4. And Bug buzz Shedinja is a bug/ghost type Pokemon. So, Axel would have to harness both of those energies when it ranks up to Elemental Pokemon. He then decided to train Marcus in ''bug buzz''. At first, he wanted Shedinja to train in ''X-scissor'' as it is a very popular move but he decided against it. ''X-scissor'' is a physical type move and Marcus would have to be in close proximity to use it which would be bad. Axel wanted Shedinja to avoid contact as much a possible. But ''Bug buzz'' is a special type move. It is more powerful than ''x-scissor'' and had a chance to decrease the opponent''s special defense. Now for Nidoran and Charmander. Axel had decided to train them with the help of ''Ancient ways'' book that he received from MEW. He also wanted to train Shedinja on it but the book only had one condition. And that was, the Pokemon should not have evolved. There were some training tips recorded in the book. But basically, before the first evolution, the Pokemon would have to train their body and bones. They would train their blood vessels when they reached rare ranked. Axel had already trained their body. As for the bones, he would have to buy some ingredients, prepare them like a paste, and let the Pokemon bathe on it by adding some water. It was like a classic cultivation novel. After that, the Pokemon would have to train hard to absorb the nutrients. But the ingredients were expensive. The ingredients were different for both Nidoran and Charmander as they had different typing. It cost Axel a total of 8000 points to acquire all those ingredients for 3 months of training. He expected Nidoran and Charmander to evolve at that point in time. As for the moves of Nidoran, Nidoran or its evolved form Nidoking, is one of the few Pokemons that could learn a variety of moves. It could learn 17 out of 18 types of moves. Besides the fairy type, it could learn anything. However, time would not let Axel train all those moves to Nidoran. One of the things lacking on Nidoking would be its stats. It had a high stat of 505 but its sp. The defense is low. But that was on the game. Not in real life. Axel could train Nidoran on all of its stats. There were 4 weakness of Nidoking; Ground, water, psychic and ice. So Axel thought to train it in ''thunder punch'' for water type. Shedinja could handle ground and psychic type and in the future, Charizard could handle ice type. However, there was a problem. Nidoran could only train in thunder punch after it evolves to Nidorino. So, for now, Axel would focus on 4 of its moves, 1. Horn attack, so it could learn Horn drill in the future. 2. Sludge bomb, as it is a powerful move. 3. Focus energy, since Nidoking in the future would be a close combat fighter 4. And earthquake. Axel wanted Nidoking to learn Fissure in the future. Earthquake would help it a lot. Now for Charmander''s moves, Over the period, Axel had observed Charmander. How he acts, how he fights and how he thinks. He had come to realize that it is a pure attacker. It doesn''t think like Shedinja when it fights. It doesn''t have a careful nature like Nidoran. It just wants to smash things. Charmander is in its baby period now. So it''s a gullible Pokemon who likes to prank. But Axel knows that''s going to change soon. After it evolves, it would be dominant and power-hungry. And he would love that nature of Charmander. Charmander was his favorite Pokemon. It still is and would be in the future. The dominant personality that Charizard had of Ash in anime is still in his mind. He loved how it acted as the king of the world and that was showing in its fighting style right now. So for now, Axel would concentrate on 4 of its moves: 2. Dragon rush, cause why not? 3. Ember, because Axel wanted it to learn Flamethrower in the future. There are other powerful fire type moves like blast burn, overheat or flare blitz but those didn''t sit well with Axel. Charizard without spewing flames from its mouth, would not be Charizard at all 4. And finally Dragon claw. 3 dragon type moves and 1 fire type move. He knew this would be a stupid idea. He knew he could have taught it ''shadow claw'' or ''dynamic punch'' or even ''solar beam'' for good type advantage. But he didn''t want that. He just wanted Charizard to be the one that he had always imagined. This could backfire on him at the latter stage, but he would deal with it at that time. Besides, it was only 3 months of training. Even it became useless, 3 months would not affect Charmander who had black potential. After thinking all this he formally decided to start the new training plan. But first, he wanted to look into Aura training book. ------- Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me Chapter 63 - Another Evolution? Sorry for the late update as I was busy with my work and was sick too. I will update 3 chapters today, compensating for 2 previous chapters. So enjoy the chapter. --------------------- The Aura training book didn''t seem too profound. It talked about the history of Aura guardian and how close Pokemons and Humans were in the past. It also mentioned that humans were giants in ancient times with special powers. And one of those special powers was Aura. The instructions were not that hard. Basically, you would have to sit on a meditative pose where the infinity energy was higher like a forest and meditate. There was a couple of breathing exercise and you would have to try to feel the energy around you. Simple right? But Axel was frustrated. This was basically meditation. And he would have to make a life-changing bet with Adam with this shit! And a person could feel Aura just by meditation? He found that hard to believe. Anyhow, he thought to give it a try. Of course, nothing happened in a day. He also practiced his sword training with push ups, sit ups and crunches. From today he had decided to train his agility in the agility training field. There were lots of training filed for different purposes. Both for trainers and Pokemons. The training field for trainer cost less than that of Pokemon. For the agility training field, there were lots of hurdles that he had to pass with great speed. For the strength training, there were a lot of leg exercises and heavy lifting¡­ and so on. After the agility training, Axel decided to buy TMs for his Pokemons. ''Gravity'' and ''bug buzz'' for Shedinja, ''Earth quake'' for Nidoran and ''dragon claw'' for Charmander. The concept of TM was a bit different than that of anime and games. It''s a type of disc that dissolves once you put it on the head of Pokemon. The said Pokemon would collect the data and train itself in the move. And after some time, it would learn it. The Pokemon would not immediately learn the move after getting TM. Besides, there are higher tier TM and lower tier TM. The higher tier had more knowledge about the move than lower tier. It was recommended to first use the lower tier. And after learning the move, you could use higher tier TMs for better mastery. However, Axel only wanted to buy the lower tier TMs to learn the move. As per his philosophy, Pokemon should work hard to understand the move themselves. Besides he had the system for the help. TMs didn''t cost points but money. TMs were very popular and almost all of the trainers used it. So the production of it was high decreasing its cost. The reason Axel had never used it before was due to less money. And he also didn''t want his Pokemons to depend on it. Kakuna was still on the training field with all its treasures lined up. Axel didn''t want to disturb it right now. He could of course tell it to train now, but that would hamper its growth. And the training continued. Back and forth. It started getting pretty boring after some time, so Axel decided to battle with trainers and do some quest sometimes. 14 days have passed. All of his Pokemons had learned their moves within 2 days. But it took Marcus 1 more day to learn ''gravity''. When he first tried it on Shedinja, the disc automatically dissolved within 5 seconds. Axel was excited watching this. Shedinja then closed its eyes and started to comprehend the moves. On the 7th day, ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Nidoran sp.attack has been upgraded to B ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª "What!!! Nidoran is going to evolve?. No, not right now" Axel said standing on his feet. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Extended evolution condition: up till all of its stats are S ranked. Could be evolved at any time ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª "Yeah, I am going to evolve until all of its stats are S ranked. After all, it is my first Pokemon." Mumbled Axel. However, Axel was shocked. Shocked by Nidoran''s dedication to train. Its nature had changed. Now it trained hard like Marcus. But what he didn''t know was that Nidoran was in love. Pokemon POV "Hey Charmander, do you think that Nidorina likes me too. I could see her starring at me sometimes" said Nidoran. "Yehh¡­ you wish bro. I think you are starting to hallucinate. Did boss''s ''dream eater'' rubbed upon you?" replied Charmander laughing. "Hey what is wrong with me? Look at my long ears and pointy claws. Any girls would be head over hills for me"said Nidoran not believing Charmander''s thoughts. "Bro, she is an evolved Pokemon. She is much more powerful than you. Why would she date a weak man?" said Charmander. "Hmmph.. You are just a kid. You don''t know. Now watch your big bro getting that s.e.xy Nidorina" said Nidoran moving towards Nidorina Nidoran was talking about A''s Nidorina. It seemed to have a crush on her. So it went talking bold steps, going to have a life changing talk. "Hey, Nidorina, I love you. Do you want to go on a date with me?" there was a pause for a few seconds. Air and time seemed to have stopped for Nidoran. It could only see Nidorina''s ear fluffing in the wind. And then Nidorina said "Hmmph¡­" like it was releasing air and walked away. Nidoran seemed to be heartbroken. 5 minutes down the line, Charmander looked to be patting Nidoran''s back while Nidoran seemed to be holding tears. From that day, Nidoran had learned the lesson of life. Nobody gives a shit unless you are powerful. All those lectures of Axel saying it to train hard had hit it even more now. So, it decided to train and show that bitch what it was capable of. Pokemon POV End On the 14th day, ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª " Wow, it is evolving now? No, I want to extend the time" said Axel excitedly. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Extended evolution condition: up till 40 days: 3 hours: 12 minutes: 15 seconds. Could be evolved at any time ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ''So I would need more resources huh'' thought Axel ------- Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me Chapter 64 - TMs and eeveelutions 14 days of training had improved Axel and his Pokemon''s stat. One of the interesting fact he discovered was, his intellect stat increased to 40 while training his Aura. He still could not feel Aura or manipulate it. His Pokemons too have developed as per his estimation, except for Shedinja. Granted Shedinja''s had low potential, but it was developing very slowly and that was not what he had expected. It trained a lot more than others but the results were sub-par at best. Axel felt bad for Shedinja and the worst part was, he knew the problem but could not solve it. Unlike his other Pokemons, Shedinja didn''t have any food recipe. Shedinja was a hollow Pokemon and it did not eat anything because it didn''t need it. So there was no food recipe for Shedinja. He asked this to Mark but he too didn''t have any answer for it. Coming to Mark, the research on Eevee was going well. Axel wanted to introduce to eeveelutions; Espeon and Umbreon. Eevee evolves into those if there is a high friendship and love between the trainer and Eevee. If it evolved on day, it would become Espeon and if it evolved during night, it would be Umbreon. So they selected 2 trainers who had good relations with their Eevees. Just to make sure, they gave food and food recipes relating to psychic energy to the Eevee that was to be evolved to Espeon and food and food recipes relating to dark energy to Eevee that was to be evolved to Umbreon. After 14 days, Axel and Mark noticed some peculiar changes. Both the Eevees seemed to have more tuned to infinity energy and had some properties of psychic and dark energy. Mark was ecstatic with this discovery. This proved that, they were going to the right direction. "How did you know that, the friendship and love between the trainer and Eevee would spark something? I mean that is some imagination. Where did you get these stuff?" asked Mark. Axel had already thought long and hard about this and had already prepared for the answer. He knew Mark would ask this question sometime. "Listening about infinity energy from you, I had something in mind. It seems that infinity energy is not so simple like we thought. I believe it can not only manipulate all types of energies but also the fundamental human relations, i.e. Friendship, love and hate and sorrow. Friendship and love affects psychic of Pokemon and with the nutrients relating to psychic type and Eevee being more s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e to infinity energy, it is not wonder that we are getting some progress." "But how about dark energy? If your theory was supposed to be true, don''t you think that, a dark type Pokemon should be filled with hate, sadness and loneliness?" Hearing this, Axel gave dark smile and then replied, "That is where you are wrong. Even if you shower your Pokemon with love; hate, sadness and loneliness will still be in its heart. Didn''t you notice something about that Eevee? The 2 trainer are good friends and that Eevee seem to be weak compared to the Eevee we want to evolve into Psychic type. I believe it is filled with hate for that reason and due to its trainer love and support it would evolve into a dark type. Besides, I don''t want it to suffer hate and sadness from its trainer. I think it would evolve into some kind of abomination if that happens." "Yeah, Shadow Pokemon. They are quite an abomination. I have never seen one before but I have heard that they are powerful and evil Pokemons" said Mark. Mark could see Axel was sad when he heard this, but he seemed to be extra sad with this. But he didn''t give it much thought and asked again. "And what it is about one evolving on day and other at night?" "Oh.. that, I just wanted to have some fun. Don''t you think that it would be cool if a Pokemon that evolves at night would be a dark type Pokemon. " They were having celebratory drink with their initial achievements. On the very next day, ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Evolution conditions have met. Do you want to evolve Charmander now? ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª "It really is the one who have superior potential" sighed Axel. "No, I don''t want to evolve it now" ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª He had decided the same for Charmander that he had done for Nidoran. He would not evolve it until all of its stats are S. With its high potential, it would grow faster than Nidoran so he was not in a time crunch. The training was very boring. Axel knew that he was getting stronger but he needed a break. So he talked with the 3 brothers and decided to go on a quest. Axel had already given his Aura book to K and he too had started training on it. K seemed to be completely different compared to 15 days ago. He was set on getting a Bulbasaur. He would train himself and his Pokemons like Axel. Unlike his lazy brothers, he had dedicated almost all of his time on training. His Pidgey was getting stronger. In fact, Pidgey had even won against his Sandshrew yesterday. It was showing its dominance of higher potential. The 3 brothers agreed with Axel''s request and went to league association. There they found a familiar quest; ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Quest: The group of Mankey had been creating an uprising on the south side of the forest. They are now in Venomoth''s area. The group consists of 3 Primeape and one of which is a rare ranked Pokemon. Control the Mankey Reward: 400 points ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª "Damn those Mankey." Grumbled B. This was tending to be a frequent quest. The Crazies had already dealt with Mankey group, 3 times. This was now the 4th time. "But the reward seem to be a lot higher for it" said A with questioning gaze. At that time the receptionist replied "Venomonth''s area is close to Venusaur''s area. We suspect that the group had also fought with Venusaur group as well. Hence the higher reward" "Why are these Mankey so suicidal? Don''t they care about their lives" said A again. Fighting with Venusaur''s group was like a death wish. Venusaur are the overlord of the forest as the most powerful Pokemon in the forest was Venusaur. The group then went on their mission. Axel didn''t have to discuss the tactic with the group as they always followed the same tactic while fighting Mankey. A and B would deal with Primeapes, and K and Axel would deal with the group of Mankey. Soon the Crazies reached the place. The battle was on full scale. The look of Mankey''s group seemed serious and m.a.t.u.r.e. Venomoth''s group was winning the battle. Mankey were fighting like they were sacrificing their lives for the better tomorrow. Their expression showed like they were some kind of freedom fighters. While Axel was trying his best to control his laugh, he saw a small green Pokemon. The Pokemon seemed to be tied with rope and had some scratches and bruises on its body. At that moment the Pokemon''s eyes also fell into Axel. It was a small, quadrupedal Pokemon that had blue-green skin with darker patches. It had red eyes with white pupils, pointed, ear-like structures on top of its head, and a short, blunt snout with a wide mouth. A pair of small, pointed teeth were visible in the upper jaw when its mouth was open. Each of its thick legs ended with three sharp claws. On its back was a green plant bulb, which was grown from a seed planted there at birth. The bulb also concealed two slender, tentacle-like vines and provides it with energy through photosynthesis as well as from the nutrient-rich seeds contained within. "Bulba¡­?" ------- Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me Chapter 65 - The Rival I feel that this is my best chapter till now. What do you feel? Do comment your favorite chapters ---------- Living alone and feeling alone are 2 entirely different things. Feeling alone is way worse than living in solitude. Unlike living alone, when you have been feeling alone, you just don''t go finding companions or friends to feel your void. Maybe you already have that. But the constant reminder in your heart that, every man is on his own, is not a good feeling¡­. At first. The reason you don''t like that feeling is cause it is a new thing for you. You feel pain like never before, sadness cause you have been left alone, rage cause even the heavens don''t give a shit about you and jealousy of others laugh and joy. Why don''t you deserve those things? Are you the one that is wrong or are you wrong itself? Why have the Arceus decided to isolate this pain to you like a poisoned finger that has been cut down to save the whole hand. These are the things that Bruno felt every day. His father always beat him up, the children in the orphanage always bullied him and the caretakers of the orphanage never listened to his story. But things started to change when he became a Pokemon trainer. At first, he wanted power, to be head strong so that no one can trample his feelings again. But after some time he realized that he was wrong. He treated his Pokemon like his father treated him. Since he only wanted power, his feelings towards Shedinja were that of a weakling. But now he felt bad for Shedinja. Shedinja had never done anything wrong. He was just treating Shedinja how the world treated him. And that was wrong. Over time he understood that his Pokemons were not just a means for his power. They were an extension of himself, his family. He decided that he would only trust his Pokemon from today as they were the only ones that understood him. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª He had not caught any new Pokemons. For now, he only had Pidgeotto, Zubat and Scyther. His Pidgey had evolved recently so he decided to challenge a gym. The result? Utter destruction of his team. It was not even a close match. He could not even defeat one of the gym leader Pokemons, not even scratch a bit. From there he learned the hierarchy of gyms and how to defeat them. For the first 2 badges, the gym leaders would challenge you as an intermediate trainer (they will use 3 rare ranked Pokemons). All the gym leaders were at least master trainer, some were even elite trainers. He realized that he would need years to even get the first 2 badges, if he was on his own. He didn''t have sufficient money or resources to raise his Pokemon ranks. After thinking long and hard, he decided to join an organization. There were 4 organizations that were popular. They were: 1. The league itself. 2. Zard family 4. And Venu family. The most lucrative was the league as the resources provided by them were huge. But it was also the hardest to get it. The league would not select you unless you are an exceptional trainer and there were lots of conditions that you had to fulfill. Like you must be eternally loyal to the league and the Kanto region. Plus it was hard to get in the higher ranks of the league. Bruno immediately canceled this option. He knew he was not an exceptional trainer. He was not even very talented. It would be impossible for him right now to get in the league. The next 2 options were the easiest. Zard family and Toise family accepted young trainers as a part of their organization. They were powerful families of Kanto region and had a lot of treasures and resources. But those were only for the higher rankers of the family. The hierarchy of those families was huge. He estimated that it would take almost 20 years of relentless serving to be a core member of their family. He didn''t have such time. The ranking of the members of both families was similar. They were: 1. Newbie 2. Rookie 3. Underdog 4. Early member 6. Elite member 7. Core member 8. Deciders 9. Leader You would only be an actual member of the family when you are promoted to the 4th rank, ''early member''. Until then you would be an outsider. When you become a ''trustie'', only then the family would consider you as their own and you would have access to rare resources and ingredients. Until then, you would complete the missions and trade the resources. Those resources are common at best and could be found in the market easily. And lastly, The Venu family. This family had not taken any outsiders till date. (Axel being a member has not been revealed to the outside world). Its power was a mystery but both the other 2 families didn''t meddle in its affairs so it should be pretty powerful. But since the family doesn''t accept any outsiders, he never thought about it. But there was another organization, that he came to know recently. It was called ''Pride''. This was an illegal organization. The league didn''t accept it but it was very powerful. He didn''t know what illegal things that it did, as the league covered up most of its tracks. But it was powerful nonetheless. How did he know? He actually met a member of Pride in his journey. The member name Althea was high in ranks and he invited Bruno to be the part of the team. As per Althea, if you would want to grow fast, Pride would be the best. It doesn''t need your absolute loyalty unless you are in very high rank like an executive. And the Pride rewards those who work hard. The resources are not divided as per the ranks. Unless you have enough points which you collect from the missions and other things, you could buy it. But since it was an illegal organization, Bruno didn''t give an immediate answer. He told Althea that he would think about it. Since his childhood, he had been taught things like illegal organizations are evil. And they do bad things and you should report it to the league if you find out about it. However, now Bruno had changed this mindset. He was not an evil person, but Pride seemed to be the only option for him now. Besides, he didn''t care about Pride. He only cared about power. And Pride could give that to him. He thought that once he got strong enough he would just leave the organization. His hatred for humans had not diminished a bit. He would just use it as a ladder for his success. Thinking about it, he walked towards his destination. ------- Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me Chapter 66 - Fourth Pokemon A/N: A few of the next Chapters would be about Bruno, the rival. I want to make a good story on Bruno too just to make things interesting. ------------------------- Roughe cafe, South of Vermilion city, Kanto region This was a common cafe that one could find. But Bruno knew what this was. This was the base of Pride. He walked inside the cafe''s reception. "Hello sir, welcome to Roughe cafe. Would you be dining alone or be waiting for someone?" said the cute receptionist. But Bruno handed over a card to the girl. Seeing the card, the smile of the girl froze for a second but it returned back as if nothing had happened. "This way sir" she said guiding Bruno to what seemed to be a secret door. The hidden building was not as huge as Venu family''s estate. There was no forest but it was big nonetheless. Burno seemed to have come at the right time. Because today was a recruitment day for new rookies of Pride. Of course, this was not a coincidence as Althea had already informed Burno of the time and date. There were many guards wearing black uniforms with a purple stripe. They were guiding newcomers to a big hall. Since Pride was an illegal and secretive organization, Bruno had expected the recruitment to have fewer people. But there were at least 50 young trainers by his rough counting. Bruno waited in the hall for about 30 minutes before Althea came on to the stage. There was a lot of chattering among the possible recruits which stopped as they saw Althea. Some of them wanted to have a friendly conversation with Bruno but he didn''t respond to any of them and just acted like he was deaf. Bruno came here to gain power not to make friends. Althea clapped her hand multiple times to stop the chattering that was starting again. "Ok, all of you listen to me now. Most of you have come here for different reasons. Some of you were outcasted by the world. Some of you didn''t have enough money to get your first Pokemon. And some of you are here, cause you always wanted to be a member of Pride. Though the last reason is highly unlikely. Pride may be an illegal organization, but it is not an evil organization as you may have thought. Of course, the definition of evil may be different for me and you. We don''t smuggle Pokemons and **** innocent girls. We are an organization that only cares about one thing. And that is power. Pride, its name is its motive itself. We want our members to be prideful and powerful. If you have any second doubts, you are free to go now. Because after this, you would be a member of Pride for at least 3 years. " The young trainers started to look at each other but none of them moved. Seeing this scene, Althea gave a soft smile and continued. "Ok then, raise your hands if you already have a Pokemon" Including Bruno, 4 other people raised their hands. The group started to stare at those 5 people. "You are still not a member of Pride. To be a member of Pride you would have to pass a small test." 5 guards brought a tray with 20 Pokeballs each and Althea continued "Your test would be to subdue one of the Pokemon in these Pokeballs. You would be given 2 days to do so. The first 3 would be given points and some rewards. Now choose your Pokemon" Points are like money here in Pride. You could get evolution stones, Pokemons, potions, antidotes and many more from points. There were many Pokemons that Burno could see. There were Scyther, Horsea, Slakoth, Slowpoke, Combee, Goldeen, Kraby, Bounsweet and even a rare Honedge. What Burno noticed was, all the Pokemons except for Bounsweet, Honedge and Scyther had king or queen in their final evolution name. Kingdra from Horsea, Slaking from Slakoth, Slowking from Slowpoke, Vespiquen from Combee, Seaking from Goldeen and Kingler from Kraby. This showed how much the organization cared about their motive, pride. The Pokemon who had ''king'' or ''queen'' in their names were naturally prideful. Scyther had a warrior pride, Tsareena had a nature of high class nobility and Aegislash was a Royal sword Pokemon. It could detect the natural qualities of leadership, recognizing a true King. But now Bruno was in a pickle. Which Pokemon to choose? Not Scyther obviously, cause he already had one. He canceled Combee, Horsea, Seaking, Bounsweet and Kingler. Cause those were not his type. Water Pokemons like Seaking which need water to survive are in his least option. 3 Pokemons, came to his mind. Slakoth, Slowpoke and Honedge. He crossed Slowpoke in his mind cause it was hard to evolve. But after thinking for some time, he chose Slakoth. He played safe. Make no mistake, Aegislash is a very powerful, royalty Pokemon. But one of the condition to get it was, it would have to chose its trainer, not the other way around. And it is very selective. It recognize who is destined to become king, or a person with high leadership skill. If Honedge didn''t accept him, then he would fail the test. And he didn''t want it. Training Slaking could be very hard, but it could be a god tier Pokemon if trained and timed well. What Bruno realized was that Pokemons from all over the regions were present here. Bounsweet, Honedge, Combee are not found in Kanto region. This proved that Pride had many branches across other regions too and it was an influential organization. Deciding it he went towards Althea and said, "I would want a Slakoth". "Hmm.. Ok then, if you want my advice, pick the Slakoth from the 2nd row in the tray of the third guard" After all the people have selected their Pokeball, Althea concluded the meeting by saying "you have 2 days to make your Pokemon submit to you. You could use the training ground or your own room if you want. But I would suggest a training ground if you don''t want your room messed up" ------- Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me Chapter 67 - Slaking A/N: 3 pending chapters as promised. I am quite busy now with my increased work schedule. But I promise to fulfill my duties, however late. Well, better late than never right. Thanks for your guys support and hope you would continue to do so -------------------------------- The Slakoth which Althea had advised turned out to be an advanced potential. If Axel was here with his system, he would know that it was purple ranked. Bruno was happy when he found out about it. The potential of a Pokemon could be determined even if the Pokemon was in the Pokeball. Bruno was happy with this development. One of the things that he was secretly worried about was the potential of Slakoth. Slakoth is a Pokemon that sleeps 15-20 hours a day. It uses very little energy by doing so. It would only need 3 leaves a day to survive. One of the interesting things about its biology was its heart. It only beats once a minute. It was a very slow Pokemon. But its next evolution, Vigoroth, was the exact opposite. Vigoroth heartbeats at a tenfold tempo and it cannot sit still even for a minute. Attempting to stand still or sleep raises its stress level and agitates its blood. It likes to go berserk by spinning its arms to destroy anything in its path. Due to its rampage, it is always hungry. And the irony was, its final evolution, Slaking, was the exact opposite of Vigoroth. Slaking is considered the laziest Pokemon ever known. One of the interesting things about it is, it is always saving energy. It can exert a lot of power by releasing built-up energy all at once. This phenomenon is what makes Slaking one of the most powerful non-legendary Pokemon in existence. The release of the built-up energy is so powerful that it could even compare to one of the legendary Pokemon, Kyogre. This was recorded in the history books from ancient times so there was never scientific proof. The reason for that was, no one ever knows how powerful Kyogre is. It is one of the few legendaries who had the title of ''Destroyer of worlds'' So Bruno was worried about its potential cause if it could only train from 4-9 hours a day, it would take lots of time for it to be powerful. One of the main reasons why the trainer won''t choose Slakoth was because of this. It takes a lot of time to train it. So, having a good potential minimized that time frame. But even if its potential was low, Bruno would not regret it. It was because of what its final evolution could do. Bruno went to the training field. It was a normal size field and he was alone. He called out all of his Pokemons except for Slakoth. He told his Pokemons to stand behind and threw the ball in the air. It was Slakoth "Slak¡­ Slakoth" it said moving its head around and observing the field. Meanwhile, Bruno was staring at Slakoth with cold eyes. When Slakoth finally found who summoned it, Bruno knelt down on one knee and said "Slakoth, I have chosen you to be my next Pokemon. I know you have many doubts about me, but I would like you to give me a chance to prove myself. My dream is to be the strongest Pokemon trainer and I want us to help each other in this journey. I know others call you slow or lazy Pokemon, but I would show the world how might a lazy Pokemon could be" After finishing his speech, there was a silence in the field. Meanwhile, his 3 old Pokemon were surprised. They had noticed the change in personality of their trainer from the past month but this was too much. Their trainer had just knelt down and requested a lazy Pokemon to be his team. This was a massive change in Bruno''s personality. The Pokemon looked lazy and weak. Why was their trainer so respectful to this weak Pokemon? Has he finally gone crazy? But they didn''t know how powerful its final evolution was. Slakoth is a king Pokemon. Naturally, it had its pride. It may be lazy and sleepy, but it would never let its pride down. This was the reason Bruno was kneeling down and showing it some respect. After some time, Slakoth agreed to Bruno and it was introduced to its new team members. Bruno ran to Althea and showed his progress. It became the first trainer to subdue his Pokemon and got the rewards. He got 1000 points and a food recipe of all his Pokemons. Over time, Bruno came to know how effective food recipes could be. But he never had any money to buy one as it was very expensive. The food recipe of Pidgey line, Zubat line and Scyther line was a personal gift from Althea to Bruno. Althea was impressed with Bruno''s choice of picking up Slakoth as he was the only person to do so. Except for Bruno, none of the people had picked up Slakoth as they knew it would be the hardest one to train. But since Slakoth was a lazy Pokemon it was the easiest to subdue. Bruno thanked Althea for her generosity and left the room. It had only taken him 30 minutes to subdue Slakoth and he was miles ahead from the second place. The second and the third place belonged to the trainers who already had a Pokemon. Having a Pokemon for defense increased their chances to subdue the Pokemon easily. But Bruno didn''t know about this as he just went to sleep. It was already evening when Althea gave her little speech and now it was dark. Tomorrow was a big day and Bruno always took a good rest before an important day. ------- Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me Chapter 68 - Increasing Move pool The first thing he did after waking up, was to buy all the ingredients for the food recipes. Normally, you would expect that a grass-type Pokemon would never eat meat. But you would be surprised that is not the case. Even Bulbasaur would not mind occasional steak. It may prefer vegetarian foods but it could eat meat. Pidgeotto would prefer to eat Weedle, Caterpie and other small insects. Zubat must be based on vampires cause it prefers blood to any other thing. Scyther also prefers meat. And Slatkoth, now this was the first vegetarian of Bruno''s team. It eats grass and leaves. Mind you, it also loves to eat meat. But the reason it doesn''t was cause of its nature. It''s incredibly lazy to hunt for meat. So it just satisfies itself with grass around it. The ingredients for Pidgeotto and Scyther mostly consisted of meat, blood for Zubat and a mixture of meat and veggies for Slakoth. Bruno prepared breakfast for him and his Pokemons and then started to get ready for training. He didn''t have new instruction from Althea or other seniors as 2 days has not passed, but he didn''t want to waste time. He reached the training field. The field was nothing special like that in Venu family. It was big, had sands and some small patches of grass all around. He threw all this Pokeball and all of them came out. Except for Slakoth who was still sleeping, all of his Pokemons were awake and ready. This was their daily routine. He didn''t want to wake Slakoth up now, cause it could only train for 9 hours at its maximum. He started thinking about his Pokemons and their moves 1. Pidgeotto- whirlwind, gust, wing attack, Bide, Roost, Aerial ace 2. Zubat- Wing attack, confuse ray, swift, toxic, leech life 3. Scyther- Protect, furry cutter, sword dance, frustration, gust, Endure, agility 4. Slakoth- N.A Most of Pidgeotto moves were of flying type. At first, he didn''t give much of a thought to his Pokemons move. He just wanted them to get stronger. But now Bruno had started to think strategically. He would continue Pidgeotto to practice ''gust''. ''Gust'' is a basic move for it. This move will train its wings and make it stronger. It would also be useful for its future moves like ''hurricane'' or ''ominous wind''. Both of these moves use the same concept of flapping of wings. For now, Bruno will train it in ''substitute'', ''agility'' and ''steel wings''. It would give it a lot of defense and variety. He decided that Pidgeotto would not concentrate on ''whirlwind'' now as it already had a lot on its plate. Zubat''s move pool was the worst. It was a flying/poison type Pokemon, however, it had only learned toxic as its poison move. Bruno decided to cancel ''swift'' in its training plan. As per ancient history books, Zubat were the descendants of Vampire. It loves to drink blood and it hates sun rays. Bruno thought of training it as a vampire. Maybe Zubat could activate its ancient bloodline and be powerful. This had never happened before but it was just his theory. ''Leech life'' was its basic move. It normally was a bug-type move but for Zubat it was different. With this move, it would drink the blood of its opponent and increase its Hp by a little. Zubat always used this move after defeating the opponent, cause the mastery of this move was not high. For now, Zubat would learn ''poison fang'', ''Venoshock'', ''Nasty Plot'' and ''Hypnosis''. Those were the perfect vampire moves he could think of. ''Hypnosis'' would make the target, ''poison fang'' would let it bite the opponent''s neck drinking their blood and badly poisoning the target, ''Venoshock'' would drench the target in a special poisonous liquid and the move deals double the damage if the target is poisoned and ''Nasty plot'' would stimulate itself by thinking bad thoughts and sharply raises its sp. Attack. Thinking of Zubat''s training plan, he had an evil grin on his face. Scyther''s moves were the most balanced in his team. It was a warrior Pokemon. It was fast, deadly and like a warrior, it never gave up. All its moves reflected its personality. He canceled ''gust'' from his mind as its evolved form would not be a fighting type but a steel type. It could still use the move after it evolved but he would not be effective. Besides, Scyther doesn''t fly at high altitudes, it just glides low in the air. Bruno decided to increase its move pool by a massive amount. He decided to add ''X-scissor'' for obvious reasons, ''Steel wing'' and ''iron head'' to increase its steel type moves as its evolved form would be bug/steel type and ''iron defense'' for some good backup. After planning on it, he woke up Slakoth to train all of them. He came to know that, Slakoth knew: Slakoth- Slack off, Yawn, Play rough and shadow claw. He had not thought about its training plans he just got it yesterday. But he was surprised that it knew ''play rough''. It was a fairy-type move and anything related to fairy was very rare. He just gave them their breakfast made from food recipes. It costed him 200 points for all the ingredients. These ingredients would be enough for 2 weeks. And then he started to train them as per their plan. 5 p.m. It was now time for Althea''s little speech in the great hall. It was announced by the speaker and after 15 minutes all of the young people gathered. Bruno noticed that many of them had bruises and some of them were injured. Althea seemed to be angry at them. She once again clapped multiple times until all of them gave their attention and started her speech, "I am really disappointed in you. 5 of you are seriously injured and would surely fail the test. They are now in the infirmary. What did you expect, that this would be the walk in the park? Those are all wild Pokemon. Obviously, they would attack you. 10 of you have passed the test on the first day. And you are already a member of Pride now. For the rest of you, if you even have a brain in your head, use it to think and pass it till tomorrow. If not, you would be in the lowest rank, ''The cleaners'' ------- Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me Chapter 69 - Ranks in Pride Ranks in Pride The next day, Bruno continued to train his Pokemons. Zubat was learning ''Hypnosis'', Pidgeotto was practicing ''agility'', Scyther with ''X-scissor'' and Slakoth was training its moves. The training was going quite well considering that they just started yesterday. The same routine went on for the whole day. After some time, Slakoth took its much-needed rest. It was now 5 p.m. and he was in the great hall again. Althea started to tell the pass rate of these young people. Now they were young trainers. Only 25 out of 50 had passed the test. 5 of them were seriously injured yesterday, 10 of them were not very capable and the last 10 of them chose Honedge. None of the trainers managed to subdue Honedge. This was quite expected. It may seem quite cool to have a sword-type Pokemon which was considered as a Royal sword for the Kings but it was equally hard to get it. Honedge unlike others doesn''t submit due to greed or power. It had an innate ability to know, whether the trainer is right for it. If the trainer didn''t have the character of a King or good leadership abilities, it would not follow the trainer. "Now, the results are in. I am quite disappointed in this batch of youngsters. Only 50% of you passed. You! yes you, What were you thinking choosing Honedge. The name of our organization is Pride, not arrogance. Anyhow, I would like to congratulate those who have passed this test. You are now an official member of Pride. So take pride in it. Your duties and rights would be explained to you. As for those who could not pass the test, don''t feel disheartened. We are not heartless to throw you out. You would be in the ranks of ''Cleaners''. But first, let me tell you about the ranks. They are: 1. Cleaners 2. Member 3. Elite member 4. Executive 5. And Boss. Cleaners are not an actual members of Pride. They would not have any Pokemon, and would do menial jobs like those of inner guards, cleaning the place and many more. You would get a minimum amount of points for this, and when your points reach 200, you would again be given a chance for this test. If you pass it you would be a member of Pride Those who passed are now in the 2nd rank, ''Member''. The difference between ''member'' and ''elite member'' is not much. You could choose a hard mission, make your own team and have a say with ''Executive''. As for ''executive'', there can only be one in each branch. Here, I am the ''executive'' And there can only be 1 boss in the region. Now as for the rights and duties of members. You would be..." And she went on and on for an entire hour. There were lots of things about Pride that he found out today. After the speech, all of them disbursed to eat. There was a big canteen where all the members ate. Bruno took his food, found an empty table and started to eat. The news that Bruno became first in the test was already known now, as Althea told it in the speech. When he was eating his food, a couple of boys came to his table to join. "Hey are you Bruno?" asked the tall one. Bruno stared at them for 10 seconds and said "Yes" and continued eating the food. The boys were already feeling uncomfortable with this situation, but the tall guy continued "Hi, I am Rajesh and this is my friend Subash. We were thinking if you would like to join us in our team" "What team?" "Hunting team, at least that is what I would like to call it. We are thinking of creating a team to do missions. It would be a lot easier if you would join us. So, what do you say" saying that the boys sat across the table with their trays. "No" "Huh!!¡­what? But why? It is a good deal for you" said Subash the small one. "I work alone. I don''t like teams and I would also not like to be disturbed while eating. So please" saying that Bruno didn''t even look at them and started eating the food. The 2 boys didn''t know what to do and just left Bruno alone with his food on the table. The way they talked by saying ''I would like'' or ''we are thinking'' made him angry. ''These boys are so innocent. They would be cursed by the world. Where are their dominance and power? They are so useless and weak.'' he thought. Bruno may have changed his thinking about his Pokemons but that didn''t apply to humans. He despised who they were at cellular level. His hate for humans was not something that could be explained in words. So why would he team up with them? He had already suffered from almost every human in this world and now he didn''t have the heart to turn a new leaf again. Cause he was not stupid. He knew that it may affect him in the long term and it was not the best way to handle such a situation as humans are social animals and he may need their help at some point. But he didn''t care about it. He would be so strong that he would not need anyone. He would be a one-man army. And besides, he would get more points if he worked alone. Pride appreciated those who work alone. It was due to their objective, pride. As he was eating his food, he heard some talk from the next table. "Hey can I ask what a cleaner is?" "Oh, are you a cleaner?" "Yes" "Dude!! Then you are in for a long ride. Let your big bro tell you about it¡­." ------- Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me Chapter 70 - Things are too Cheap "A Cleaner is someone who does menial jobs to earn points. But may have already heard it from Althea. But what you may not have known would be its difficulty. It is hard to live as Cleaner. If you want to be a member, you would need 200 points. 200 points may be easy for members like me to earn but it is a different story for you. I was a Cleaner before and it took me 6 months to collect 200 points. A cleaner could not have a Pokemon and you would have to do those dirty and low level works for a long time" "Man !, is it that hard. 6 months is a long time. Maybe I should leave Pride and try my luck somewhere else" said the cleaner. Hearing this response the member started to laugh hysterically. After he had his time for laugh, he added "haha, you think Pride could not appoint people that could do menial jobs. Why do you think that you, a potential trainer have to work as a cleaner? Now listen to me very carefully. Pride is a secret organization. So if people who have failed like to gets the right to go out, do you think it would be a secret organization anymore? No. You are trapped here. You now become a member or live the rest of your life being a cleaner. If you want to go out from here, then your end would not be pleasant." Replied the member. After listening to that explanation, few cleaners who had heard it became nervous and they now had pale faces. The member tried to console them by saying "But don''t worry there are benefits of being a Cleaner. If you become a member after being on the ranks of cleaner, you would be respected more than a normal member. The elite members and executive would give you preferential treatment and other members would also show you some respect." "Why?" "This is because of the organization''s policy. Being a cleaner is not easy. Pride respects the people who deserve it. So, you would not be bullied even if you are a cleaner here. So, that''s a load off your back" Bruno stopped hearing after this. He had his shit to take care of. He knew about the ranks of Pokemon, but didn''t know what an elemental or Pseudo-king or King ranked Pokemon could possibly do and how he could train them. He thought to buy the book with his remaining 800 points. He thought to just buy the elemental Pokemon training manual for now and hoped that 800 points would cover it. Member of pride had their own market to buy these things. You could buy almost all of the things you needed. He went to the shop once again to buy it. He had gone there yesterday to buy the ingredients. "Oh hello, new member. What have you come here for today, buy or sell?" asked an old man. He was the shopkeeper of this shop. "Buy, I want to buy an elemental Pokemon training manual" "We have it. Do you want a general one or for a specific Pokemon?" "A general one would do." "Ok then, it would cost you 20 points" "20!! ??" Bruno was shocked. "Alright, I could give it to you for 10 points." But seeing Bruno shocked again, he said "5 points, that is my last offer. Damn! You know how to haggle" said the old man. He had thought to earn some extra points because Bruno was a newbie and didn''t know anything. You could actually see the prices in the forum and they are fixed. But Bruno had come prepared, at least he thought so. But Bruno was surprised because the price was so low. 5 points for such a valuable book was too cheap. But he straightened his face and said "Ok, the price is acceptable. Give me a general book on elemental, Pseudo king and King ranked Pokemon. I would also like a specific training manual for Zubat line, Scyther line, Pidgey line and Slakoth line. Of course only of elemental ranks for now." "Here are your books, 35 points in total," said the old man handing the books. Bruno handed over his Pokecard and the points were deducted. After the transaction was successful he asked "What I want to know is, why the books are so cheap and the ingredients are so pricey. I actually expected it to be way higher" "Oh my sweet luck, I made a bad business today. So that is why you were shocked" said the old man. But the transaction was already completed so he thought to give an explanation to the boy. The boy may be grateful and be his regular customer. "The price of the books is low cause it is not a one-time use item. It is a copy. Pride wants its member to grow strong so it would not place a high price on these books. However, the prices of ingredients are high as they could not be used again. There is a forum about the prices of everything. You should check it." Bruno thanked the old man for the information and went towards his room. He first thought to give a simple read of the general books to get a general idea. Then he would read about the specific books and think of a new training plan. But first, he decided to check the forum. He didn''t want to buy anything now but wanted to see all those things that could be bought. After searching in the forum, he found out about a miraculous thing called, TM. This thing could increase his practice pace. But the prices of the TMs were in hundreds. Some of the rare ones were actually in thousands. Expensive moves like ''sky attack'' were worth 25000 points. These TMs had a lot of zeros. But Bruno was not disappointed in this. He would take 1 step at a time. Kanto was not built in a day. It would take his baby steps for ultimate power. Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me Chapter 71 - Worried Parents A/N: The story of Axel continues from here --------------------------------------------- To say the day was eventful would be an understatement. They had already finished their quest, submitted it and now were eating lunch. ''There is a small line of difference between bravery and foolishness.'' And he didn''t know in which category the Mankey group should be. They had kidnapped a baby Bulbasaur. He didn''t know what they had planned to do with it. For ransom? For revenge? Or did they wanted to study Bulbasaur to fight its group later? ''Nah, they are not that intelligent'' thought Axel. This was the first time, Axel had seen a Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur was not a rare sight to see, but it was his first time. And that green Pokemon had made quite an impression on him. They fought with the group of Mankey and Primeape. A and B handled Primeape while the others took care of Mankey. It was not a hard fight as they were already used to their fighting style. Bulbasaur was not heavily injured but it had lots of Mankey''s scratches on its body. It now seemed to be afraid of everyone. The feeling of getting kidnapped for the first time, may not be pleasant. After some time, the poor Pokemon calmed down as Nidoran started patting on its back and Charmander started its signature pranks on it. He then identified it through the system and found out that it had ''brown'' potential. If it was any other Pokemon, he would have caught it. But this was Bulbasaur. The overlord of the forest was Venusaur and this was Venu family. So he could not do it. The group decided to return Bulbasaur to his area. Bulbasaur already seemed to be comfortable with Axel and now was sitting on its shoulders. This seemed to be its favorite spot now. When they reached the area, a lot of Bulbasaur came running towards it. Our Bulbasaur went to greet them. ''Must be its friends'' the group thought. After some time, the group was led to the place where there were 2 Venusaur. The pressure emitted by those 2 Pokemons was immense. The group settled down and then one of the Venusaur spoke "I would like to thank you. You have saved my¡­. Our child from those horrible Mankey." It was a male voice. The voice didn''t seem too strict or void of feelings but was actually sweet and a bit high-pitched. But the Crazies didn''t even care about it. They were already astonished because it was not every day that you could be in the presence of King-ranked Pokemon. But then the other Venusaur spoke. This one seemed to be female and hearing them say ''our child'' Axel had already figured out that they were the parents of Bulbasaur. The Pokemon said, "Well Venu family members live up to their reputation. This has further increased our cooperation. But since you had worked so hard with your life on the line, we will reward you. Tell me what are your d.e.s.i.r.es. If it is something we could do, we would not hesitate." A asked for ''poison barb'' for his Nidorina, B asked for ''miracle seed'' for Vileplume. B''s request was not granted, as miracle seed seemed to be important and very rare. So he also asked for ''poison barb''. When it came to K he said "I want a Bulbasaur on my team. I know I had to have a rare ranked Pokemon and be proficient in Aura before that. But after I do so, I want your support on choosing my Bulbasaur". "If you have fulfilled other conditions, we have no issues. Don''t worry we will fully support you and also convince other parents of this" When it came to Axel he also said that he wanted a Bulbasaur. "Well if you could fulfill other conditions, like what this other child had said, we would support you" "No, you didn''t get my point. I want the Bulbasaur which we escorted here. I want your son to be my next partner" The couple was shocked when they heard it. It was easy to promise that they would support Bulbasaur''s trainer but when it came to their child it was difficult. It was not like they would go back on their promise, but deciding now on their child''s future was hard. "Why do you want our son as your partner?" asked the mother. Well, mothers are the ones who are more protective of their children. So, it was natural that her voice was a bit cold. "We have already bonded with each other. And I think he would be happy to join me too" replied Axel. He was not gonna miss a Pokemon with a brown potential. "Child, choosing a partner should not be done harshly. You just have met our son but have not even seen others. Don''t you think that you should keep your option open? Our son may not be compatible with you" said the father. "What? Do you think our son is weak? Let me tell you, our son is strong. It is just a baby now, but it would be the most powerful Venusaur in the future" roared the mother puffing its cheeks. The mother seemed to be offended that someone had said something bad about her son. Even though that someone was its husband, it didn''t seem to care. Well, such is the mother''s love. "No, I am trying to broaden his visions. What if their relationship didn''t go well? Listen child, I don''t know about other cultures, but here in Venusaur family, choosing a trainer is a big deal. A lot of thinking is done before this. A ceremony is held when a trainer is chosen. So we could not give you an answer right now, but we would think about it" said the father. Axel tried to convince them for some time, but they didn''t give a positive answer. It seemed like, approval of its parents was hard than he thought. The couple said that they would give this a great deal of thought, ask their son, ask the leader of Venu family about his personality and performance and then decide. That was a long process. But since he could not do anything about it he just let it be for now. A and B got their poison barb and they said their goodbyes. ------- Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me Chapter 72 - Second Evolution Time Skip, 15 days, Nidoran had truly worked hard. That bitch Nidorina had truly hurt its manhood. It was going to grow stronger, evolve and show that Nidorina how powerful he could be. Meanwhile, Axel was pleasantly surprised by Nidoran''s dedication. It now worked as hard as Marcus which was surprising. After some thought, Axel concluded that Nidoran had grown up now. This was the day, Axel thought to evolve Nidoran. Almost all of its stats had increased to S except for sp. Defense which was A ranked. At around 1 p.m. in the afternoon a system notification came up: ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! All of Nidoran''s stats have reached S rank. Evolution extension condition has been met. Nidoran would evolve in 30 seconds. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª When he heard that, Axel took out a long-awaited item called ''Poison barb''. This was a 100 yr old Poison barb given by Mr. Koga as a reward for Rookie tournament. Mr. Koga had advised Axel to use it when it evolves to Nidorino as its body would be more powerful to hold its power. However, Axel was going to use it now, not when it evolved to Nidorino but when it was evolving. There were 2 reasons for it. One, Nidoran was more powerful than normal Nidoran as all of its stats were already S ranked. So he thought, Nidoran could hold the power of poison barb. And second, if Axel used it now when Nidoran was evolving, there would be a certain chance that its potential would increase. Actually, there might be a greater chance now, as Nidoran was serious about its training now, so its comprehension abilities must have improved somehow. Nidoran took the poison barb with gusto. Nidoran knew Axel had poison barb with him and it was already attracted with it. So it would ask Axel to give the poison barb every day. After 2 months of the constant request, it had finally got what it wanted. This evolution was different from Weedle. Instead of a white glow, it was purple, signifying that it was a poison-type Pokemon. But what Axel failed to understand was, why the glow on Weedle was white instead of green and poison. The evolution process took more than a minute. The figure inside the glow started to expand. Axel could hear the roars of Nidoran like it was in pain. He never thought that a Pokemon could be in pain while it was evolving. This has not happened to Weedle. A lot of things were different when Nidoran was evolving. After a minute, the expansion stopped, so did the purple-colored glow. And a Pokemon came into view. It was a light-purple, quadrupedal Pokemon. It had several darker purple patches across its body. It had large, spiny ears with teal insides, narrow black eyes, and a long snout with two pointed teeth protruding from the upper jaw. Nidorino had a ridge of toxic spines on its back and a long pointed horn on its forehead. The horn was harder than a diamond and capable of secreting poison on impact. Its short legs have three claws on each foot. "Roooarr!!!" With a roar, it announced its presence. The roar was mighty. Axel had finally evolved a Pokemon to Uncommon ranked. (If a Pokemon uses a stone or any external factors to evolve, then it would an unranked Pokemon without evolving to that stage. Like, Nidorino needs a moonstone to evolve into Nidoking. So, Nidorino itself is an uncommon ranked Pokemon. This was mentioned in previous chapters) ------------- Ding! Congratulations! Nidoran has evolved. Ding! Congratulations! It is a perfect evolution Ding! This is your first perfect evolution Ding! The hidden quest has been completed. Hidden quest: Get a first perfect evolution Ding! Reward is being calculated for Hidden quest¡­.. Time taken for completion: ¡­.., Highest mastered move:¡­.., ... ---------- A lot of calculation was being done at a very fast pace. However, Axel didn''t have time for this now. He was watching Nidorino with full concentration. Axel was disappointed with this. He knew a Pokemon who had just evolved would have some changes in nature. Most of them become arrogant, or angry or mentally incapable for some time. Some of the Pokemons would change their nature permanently. But he thought Nidorino would be different. Since, Nidoran was his first Pokemon, and being a Pokemon who had spent most of the time with Axel, he thought his closeness with it would not change its nature. Axel came close to it and said "I know when a Pokemon evolves, the power during the evolution changes it. But I know you are the same Nidoran who was playing with me and the team yesterday. So come out of it. Marcus, Charmander, Gogoat and I wish to celebrate this with you." When those words fell on Nidorino''s ears, its face started to change. It came to realize who they were. It took some time, but Nidorino finally came back to normal. It jumped towards Axel to hug him and made Axel fall towards the ground and then it started l.i.c.k.i.n.g Axel''s face showing its gratitude. In the meantime, the 3 brothers were shocked. They were not shocked about the purple glow, cause they had expected it. It also was not about Nidorino''s change in attitude but it was about its size. The current Nidorino was more than double the size of normal Nidorino. A normal Nidorino was 0.9m in height. But Axel''s Nidorino was 2m in height. They wanted to ask Axel, how he did it? Because normally a bigger size suggests a more powerful Pokemon. The group congratulated Axel and then decided that today would be Axel''s treat. They didn''t even ask Axel about his opinion. But he didn''t care. Nidoran was his first Pokemon and now it had evolved. The joy he was feeling right now could not be described in words. Axel then checked its stats but he was surprised. Nidorino''s stats were¡­.. Chapter 73 - First Evolution 1 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon''s name: Nidorino (Age- 6 months) Pokemon Nickname: Megalania (Locked) Ability: Poison point Hidden ability: Sheer force (Locked) Potential: Purple Health: 450/450* Attack: F Agility: F Defense: F Sp. Atk: F Sp. Def: F Moves: Chip away (Egg move) (Lvl 8)*, Sucker punch (Egg move), Venom drench (Egg move) (Lvl 9)*, Tackle (Lvl 12)*, Poison sting (Lvl 8)*, Peck (Lvl 3), Focus energy(Lvl 15)*, Horn Attack (Lvl 25 max)*, Rest (Lvl 6), Bite (Lvl 4), Quick Attack (Lvl 2), Sludge Bomb (Lvl 23)*, Earthquake (Lvl 10)*, Horn Drill (Lvl 4)* ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª This was a massive change. Maybe Nidorino had become an uncommon ranked Pokemon or maybe it was due to its training, but the stats were high. Really high. Its health was 450!. Just 2 minutes ago, when it was still Nidoran, its health was only 200. But the evolution increased it more than 2 times. ''Focus energy'', ''Horn attack'', ''Sludge bomb'' and ''earth quake'' had leveled up to 15, 25, 23 and 10 respectively. Those were the 4 moves that Nidoran had focused on. Other moves have also leveled up a bit. Nidoran may have focused on 4 moves, but it had not completely neglected other moves. All of its poison-type moves have leveled up by 5 when it evolved. ''Venom drench'', ''Poison sting'' and ''sludge bomb'' were leveled 4, 3 and 18 before evolution. This change had shocked Axel. The implication of this change may be huge on future evolutions if he played his cards right. But Axel was disappointed when his eyes fell into its potential. Its potential had not increased. There was still another evolution left for Nidorino so he had not lost all hope. By this time, the system had already calculated the rewards ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! The rewards had been calculated. Ding! Congratulation! You have been rewarded with an upgrade stone. The upgrade stone has been stored in your inventory. Ding! Congratulation! You have unlocked a new function, Inventory ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ''I have finally unlocked the inventory function. I now feel like the protagonist of a novel. And what is this upgrade stone?'' thought Axel. He thought to look at ''Inventory'' function first but was disappointed again. It was like a classic inventory of any system novel or Virtual reality games novel but there was a condition. He could only store those items that have been rewarded by the system. That was a low blow. He then looked at the information on upgrade stone. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª This was a new thing. These types of stones didn''t exist in the Pokemon world and it was purely given by the system. But the description of it was very vague. It could not upgrade all of the items and may not work on higher-quality items. How much quality is higher quality? Well, still he got something interesting. Looking over Nidoran''s stats again, there was another thing that surprised him. It was its stats. All of them were F ranked. As he had witnessed it from Weedle''s evolution, he knew that after a Pokemon evolves, all of its stats would change to F rank. But since all of Nidoran''s stats were maximum, he had thought that some of them would be higher than F. But he was wrong. He understood now that he could not trust system''s ranking as it was not accurate. If Axel had evolved Nidoran 15 days ago, when most of its stats were B ranked, then all of its stats after evolution would be F. But he evolved Nidoran when all of its stats were S ranked and after evolution, its stats still changed into F. But Axel was sure the latter would beat the formal easily with a swipe of its claws. This was a glitch in the system and he would exploit it fully. Axel wanted Nidorino to take a day off and have some much-deserved rest. But since it just evolved, its body was brimming with energy. It didn''t train today but it was jumping around with joy. All of Axel''s Pokemon congratulated Nidorino. Even the Pokemons of the 3 brothers were congratulating Nidorino. Reaching an uncommon rank was a great feat. But there was one Pokemon who didn''t seem to care. It was Nidorina. Nidorino also didn''t give a shit about it. It had decided that it would train even harder from tomorrow. Though it had evolved to its final evolution like Nidorina (Nidorino had already forgotten about its final evolution that Axel had told before), it knew that it was still weak to Nidorina. It had seen Nidorina fight with Mankey group and Primeape and knew that it would not last long if it challenged it now. It was already night when the group decided to eat. It was Axel''s treat today. Though the 3 brothers were happy because of the free meal, they were depressed too. 2 of Axel''s Pokemon had evolved within a month and all of his Pokemons were growing very fast including Axel. Axel had still not given up on his training. His training on Aura was finally showing some noticeable improvement. He still could not manipulate as he wished but sometimes, he would feel different when he was meditating. He could have a good sense of his surroundings and could feel his Pokmeon''s mental state. But this only happened sometimes. But K had improved a lot in his Aura training compared to Axel. Maybe he had been living in Venu family for too long where the flow of infinity energy was higher or had a natural talent for it, but he could feel the Aura as long as he concentrated enough. The research on Eeveelutions was also going in the right direction. Mark and Axel were convinced now that they would get a positive result after some time. Chapter 74 - Road to Rare Rank The next day, Nidorino was experimenting on its body. Since it had evolved, the new body made it uncomfortable to walk, run, or train. When it was Nidoran, it would hop on the ground to move. It had become proficient in it. Now, evolving into Nidorino, it could walk on 4 limbs and that seemed difficult for it. Roman, their teacher had showered Axel with praise cause of his quick improvement. The 3 brothers were the ones to take the anger of their teacher as they had not improved like Axel. Still, Axel can''t stop thinking about Bulbasaur. It had made quite an impression on him. He knew that the 3 months of training on Venu family would change him, but so much improvement was unexpected. He figured he would try to battle a gym leader after he is free from Venu family grounds. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª "What is the difference between an uncommon ranked Pokemon and rare Pokemon?" "What do you mean?" "I mean, how could I evolve my Pokemon to a rare ranked Pokemon? Is there some special training that I should do? Or do they just rank up by training? And besides, how could a person know that a Pokemon is a rare ranked Pokemon?" "wo.. wo¡­ hold your horses, my friend, let me start the explanation." Axel and A were talking in the training field. B and K seemed to have a mock-up battle and K was losing. Axel wanted to ask this question long ago but he didn''t as he didn''t need to know before. Marcus was already an uncommon ranked Pokemon, but its stats were pitifully low before to an uncommon rank. But now, both, Marcus and Nidorina could train to rank up. "If you are thinking that purple glow would emerge when it ranks up or its stats would change drastically then you would be disappointed. In fact, there is not much of a change between an uncommon ranked and a rare ranked Pokemon from the outside. But there would a sizable difference between their performances. A rare ranked Pokemon is someone who is at the peak and could rank up to elemental after it grasps its elemental powers. You could just say that it is an uncommon ranked Pokemon who is at the peak in its power." "Then why is there even such a rank in the hierarchy. Why can''t it be from uncommon rank to elemental rank?" asked Axel "It is because of what elemental rank signifies. Only 20% of the trainers could evolve their Pokemon to elemental rank. 80% could not pass the hurdle. It is extremely hard for a trainer to train their Pokemon to elemental rank. The Pokemon have to grasp their elemental power, awaken it and create a unique move to be called an elemental Pokemon." By saying this, A stood up and concluded their meeting by saying "All I could advise you is to train your Pokemon, rectify even the smallest of their mistakes in their training and plan how to awaken their elemental powers." There were a lot of things going on Axel''s mind. He could train Nidorino to level up its moves and train its body stats again, but something was telling him that it would not be enough. Even if he evolves Nidorino into a rare ranked Pokemon, what about next? He would still need a corpus amount of time to evolve it into an elemental rank. The ancient book gifted by MEW also said that a Pokemon must be a rare ranked to train its elemental powers. But Axel wanted to train elemental powers right now. He estimated that Nidorino is already as powerful as a rare ranked Pokemon. So, he went to visit Mark. "Oh hey, Axel, what brings you to these neck of the woods. You normally come to visit me in the evening" said Mark opening the door. "Yeah. Well, this is for something else" said Axel and he told everything to Mark. "So, you want me to test Nidorino''s power and tell you how much closer it is to be a rare ranked Pokemon." "Yes that is what I want to know" "But Axel, Nidorino just evolved. It is bigger than normal Nidorino but I don''t think it could even come close to power in terms of rare ranked Pokemon." "But I believe that it is close to a rare ranked Pokemon." Said Axel. "Well I could give it a test but let me assure you that you would not surprise me this time," said Mark. Mark did a lot of testing on Nidorino. Some time he would ask it to use its moves or run at full speed. Mark did a lot of testing on Nidorino''s poison power too. The test took a whole day and Mark had to observe all the results. After the result came, the was silence in the room. But Mark broke the ice by saying "Well, you surprised me again Axel." "So, that means it is a rare ranked Pokemon now?" Asked Axel expectedly. "No, don''t get your hopes that high. I mean your Pokemon just evolved. But I could say that it is in a peak uncommon rank. This is the first time that I have seen just evolved Pokemon be so strong. It would only need some time of rigorous training to rank up. So, congratulations." "So, does that mean, I could train it in elemental powers? Does Nidorino have the capacity to hold such power now?" asked Axel. "Sure, go ahead. I don''t think there would be any problem. But let me give a piece of advice. Don''t train it on elemental powers now. Only do it when it ranks up" "But why? Is there any specific reason?" "There is. You see, when a Pokemon ranks up to elemental, it becomes harder for it to train its body. Only mastery of elements could increase their body stats and they get a huge boost in body stats when they rank up each time. So training your Pokemon now would be beneficial" ------- Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Chapter 75 - Nidorino VS Nidorina After meeting with Mark, Axel went to elder Adam for advice. Adam also said the same thing. "The thing that you are asking me is very rare. Trainers don''t train their Pokemon on elemental powers when they just evolve. There have been cases where they did but it didn''t end well." Adam became sad when he heard it. He wanted his Pokemon to grow fast but it seemed he had to rank up all his Pokemons to rare first. "But there was one case, in which a trainer chose to train all his Pokemons on elemental powers when they just evolved to uncommon ranked." "Oh, who was that trainer?" "You know him very well, at least you have heard of him countless times. His name is Samuel Oak" Just as there is thunder music when the main spoiler is revealed in a movie, Axel felt thunderous background music on his head when he heard that name. Now everything was connected. ''So that is why he is the fastest person to ever become a Champion'' thought Axel. "Don''t compare yourself to that man. He is a monster. I am not saying that you should never set a goal to be better than him. But if you start to compare him and research his accomplishment now, you would be like a frog in the pond watching the sky. You would never think from a different perspective. And you would never be better than him. As a teacher, I am happy with your accomplishment. You evolved your Pokemon to uncommon rank within 3 months. Not many people could say that. It may take years for a trainer to evolve their Pokemon to an uncommon rank. So remember, take baby steps, and don''t just jump out of the window" After listening to both Mark and elder Adam, Axel decided to heed their words. He had almost destroyed Nidorino''s future when he told it to absorb poison core. If he had not met MEW, it would have been disastrous. So, he would not play with Nidorino''s future now and train it until it ranks up to a rare ranked Pokemon. --------- "Are you sure you want to do this? I mean Nidorino just evolved" "Yes, I want to see, how much powerful Nidorino has become." "Ok I would be the referee and it is a good thing to gauge its battle powers." Axel had just asked A to battle his Nidorina. He wanted to know how powerful Nidorino had become. And somehow, Nidorino seemed excited about its first battle. Axel was starting to realize that something was with Nidorino that he didn''t know. Roman had declared that he would be the referee for the battle. "Let the Battle begin!!" "Nidorina use ''blizzard''" "Nidorino use ''earthquake''" The moves were used after a lot of thinking. A knew that Axel would start with ''earth quake'' as it is super effective against Nidorina. So, he knew that Nidorina could not use close combat move as ''earthquake'' would already hinder it. ''Blizzard'' was the only long distance move that it had. A howling blizzard was summoned by Nidorina. The winds generated by snowstorm could be seen in the field and the visibility went down in an instant. On another side, cracks started to form on the ground and in traveled all the way to Nidorina. The shaking of the ground was so massive that, Nidorina flew in the side from the impact. ''Earthquake'' covered a huge distance and all others except for the 2 have to move out of the way. Nidorina was hit and badly so. Polls on the side fell onto Nidorina due to ''earthquake''. But Nidorino also didn''t fare well. Almost all of its body was frozen with ice and the ice was ticker on its face. All of them, trainers, teacher, and the Pokemons were shocked by seeing the destruction of ''earthquake''. Nearby trees had fallen, Roman was down on the ground and there were many cracks and holes on the ground. If Nidorina had not dodged, it would have already lost. Everyone knew that Nidorino''s ''earthquake'' was not so powerful before its evolution. ''Earthquake'' seemed to have got a huge boost in power. ''Thought the level of earthquake mastery didn''t change after evolution, but its body stats did. This may be the reason for its increase in power.'' Axel had realized the power of improving body stats by now. So he had cemented his decision on training it to the peak of rare rank. For a moment both of the Pokemons tried their best to stabilize themselves. But A could see Nidorino taking a deep breath and staring at Nidorina. "Shit! Nidorina, control yourself and use ''horn attack'' fast. A knew Nidorino was using ''focus energy'' when he saw it taking a deep breath. But Nidorina took some time to control itself. At that very moment, the group could see some cracks appearing on frozen Nidorino''s body. By the time Nidorina was ready to use its move, the ice shattered and everyone could hear a huge roar coming from Nidorino. "Roooaaarrrrrrr¡­." "Nidorino, NOW!!" shouted A with urgency. "Nidorino, use ''Horn drill''" said Axel. For a second, A could not even register what Axel had said. ''Horn drill'' was a new move that Nidorino had automatically learned after its evolution. By the time, A realized it, both of the Pokemons had already clashed. Nidorina''s horn hit Nidorino head. But it could not do much damage because of Nidorino''s ''horn drill''. ''Horn drill'' is a move where the user rotates its horn like a drill and hits the target. The drilling horn stabbed on Nidorina''s stomach. The horn went inside the stomach as Nidorino''s charged did not stop until it rammed Nidorina into a falling tree. Due to the spinning horn, a lot of blood had spattered on the ground. Thank Arceus that the horn didn''t pierce its stomach. Otherwise, instead of blood, its intestine would have come out. ------- Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me Chapter 76 - Reality of Everstone The group and Ramon charged to the Pokemon center. Axel was feeling horrified while watching Nidorina''s wound. He didn''t expect that ''horn drill'' would be so devastating. Axel apologized to A multiple times but it seemed like A didn''t take it to heart. A also knew that Axel didn''t do it intentionally. The nurse was checking Nidorina''s condition and the group was waiting for the result. After 30 minutes the nurse came out and said, "There is no need to worry. Nidorina is an uncommon ranked Pokemon so its defense is high. But it would need 4 days of complete rest to recover fully." Axel and A sighed in relief when they heard it. The crazies were just dining and drinking at their usual place. Axel had felt he would be left out in the conversation after the incident but the 3 brothers were very chill. "Damn! How is your Nidorino so powerful? It just evolved. What did you do? Did you feed it some energy drinks?" said B after taking a big gulp of beer. "Axel, I already told you that you don''t have to feel sorry for this. It was an accident, happens to the best of us. And Nidorina is fine. She would be up and running after 4 days." Said A. A felt that Axel was still feeling bad about it. "But seriously, what did you exactly do to Nidorino? Why is it so powerful?" asked K this time. He also wanted to know this as Nidorino is almost a rare rank Pokemon now. "You have seen me training Nidoran in the past. I know as much as you do. I just trained it to its maximum potential" said Axel. Axel knew what made Nidorino so powerful. All of its stats were S ranked and he had also let it bathe in the liquid to strengthen its bones. Plus he added ''poison barb'' in the mix when it was evolving. The group knew about the bath but A, B, and K had not cared about it. Now they were rethinking their decision on it. Axel could not tell them about his system and getting all the ranks to S. It was his secret and he thought that there would be some major repercussion if he revealed it. MEW also had slightly warned it with its tone before. But he did say this, "I don''t know why, but my Pokemons seem to evolve at a much slower rate. Kakuna still has not evolved and I feel Nidoran also took its sweet time. So, since the evolution time is longer, they could strengthen their body stats more and the increment of their powers after evolution is massive" "Maybe we could get an ''everstone'' and test this theory." Said B. "We could do that, but we need a higher quality ''everstone'' for it. Lower quality has many impurities and could stop Pokemons growth too" said A after thinking for some time. "You are forgetting something. ''Everstone'' is a one-time use item. It automatically dissolves then it touches Pokemon''s head. A Pokemon could never evolve after that. Besides ''everstones'' are costly. We could not afford them" "Really? Damn! Nobody uses ''everstone'' nowadays, so I didn''t know" said A. This was also a piece of new information for Axel. Most of the items in the games are held items, ''everstone'' being one of them. Axel may have studied a lot when he came to this world, but he had left out basic things thinking that he already knew about it. But he was now realizing that it was wrong. He planned to study the basics again from now. ''System, can I see other trainer''s Pokemon stats?'' Axel asked in his mind. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! It could be done after host''s skill ''Identify'' level-ups to 10 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ''Well that''s not happening soon'' thought Axel. He had thought that, if he could see other trainer''s Pokemon stats, then he could help the trio. The atmosphere had gone downhill now as the group could not find out the reason for Nidorino''s hidden powers. But Axel broke the ice, "There is one thing that we could try" ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª "So, you want me to buy 2 ''everstones'' for you so that you could verify this theory," said Mark. 4 of them nodded their head. "You guys are not doing this to get more points from me, are you?" asked Mark with a questioning gaze. "No, you saw how powerful Nidorino is. If we could verify this theory, it would be a huge boost for Venu family. We are doing this for the family." Stated A. "But how could you prove this theory? Everstone is a one-time use item. Your Pokemon would never evolve" said Mark. "That is another reason why we came to you. We want you to make something so that ''everstone'' would not dissolve and could only be used temporarily. Just make a locket with ''everstone'' as a center and put some protective barrier on it. It should not be so hard right?" said Axel "Hmm¡­ that would be easy for me. I could do that in 5 minutes. But Axel, do you really think that this theory could be proved? I mean, I am not questioning your intelligence. You have some bizarre imagination and all of them have shown results. But this seems way out of line even for you. The discovery of ''everstone'' was done before our great great great great great great grandfathers were born. I think at least some of them have come with this theory and failed." "Mark, even you know that everything has a grand purpose. From air to light even poisonous gases. Why can''t ''everstones'' have one too? I don''t think its only use is to stop the evolution for a lifetime. Don''t this tickle your fancy? Besides, it is just 2 ''everstones''. It is not much of an investment and you know it" said Axel. "Hmm¡­ alright I am hooked. I would contact the leader about it. You would have your ''everstones'' by 2 days" concluded Mark. ------- Support me on ''Pat reon'' and get 10 additional chapters. My id for ''Pa treon'' is: --patreon.com/TheSilverPrince1 delete the ''--'' after '''' Hope you guys will support me Chapter 77 - Arrogant Charmeleon A/N: Hello guys, I am back. I apologize for staying out almost a month but what can I do? I got infected with corona virus. I am Ok now and in full health. what? you thought that I gave up on you guys? As a bonus, there are 12 chapters that I would be releasing today. So enjoy! ------------------------------------------------- Those 2 ''everstones'' were for K. All of A''s and B''s Pokemon had already evolved to their final evolution so there was no need for them. ''Everstone'' was rare. Not because of limited supply but it was hardly used. So, not many of them would have a stock of high-quality ''everstone''. The stone arrived the very next day. Mark seemed to have worked hard on it. It was in a form of a locket just like Axel had imagined. The stone was covered with some bluish crystal. K put those lockets in Shandshrew''s and Pidgey''s heads. The group had decided to use the bath that Axel had done for Charmander and Nidoran for this theory. Coming to Charmander, it was close to its evolution. Most of its stats were already A-ranked. But from A to S was difficult to improve. The same thing had happened to Nidoran. The system also mentioned SSS rank before, but it seemed like, S was the maximum rank for the first evolution. Pokemon POV Nidorino was showing its awesome evolution to its group. "Nidorino, you have taken your revenge on that Nidorina just as you said. I respect you, bro." Said Charmander. "Yeah, but I didn''t mean to hurt her so badly. I feel sorry for her now" replied Nidorino. "Oh, are you in loovveee?" asked Charmander. While Charmander was teasing his brother, Shedinja intervened "What Nidorino did was not good. But remember Nidorino, hate the sin, not the sinner" Nidorino nodded its head. Marcus was the one who gave m?tur? advice to the team. So the team always listened to its words. "Charmander, now only you are the weakest of our group. Evolve fast so you could be stronger like me" said Nidorino. "Yeah, from tomorrow, I will work as hard as I can" Nidorino, smacked its head. "Ouuch! What gives?" asked Charmander. "Not tomorrow, but from today. You always procrastinate" Pokemon POV end Time Skip, 15 days later, 2 months have gone by since Axel first stepped into Venu family. A lot of things have changed since then. Nidoran and Weedle have evolved. Axel had met the trio and Bulbasaur, and research on Eeveelutions was close to completion. Axel had improved, leaps and bounds. But he still could not fully manipulate his aura. He was getting close to it. He liked Venu family but the idea of being a permanent member didn''t sit well with him. As he was having a daydream of his accomplishment, suddenly a system notification disturbed him. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! All of Charmander''s stats have reached S rank. Evolution extension condition met. Charmander would evolve in 30 seconds. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Just as the glow disappeared, Axel and the group could hear a roar from a reptilian Pokemon. The roar was frightening but it lacked some essence compared to Nidorino''s evolution. It was a bipedal, reptilian Pokemon. It had dark red scales and a cream underside from the ?h?st down. It had blue eyes and a long snout with a slightly hooked tip. On the back of its head was a single horn-like protrusion. It had relatively long arms with three sharp claws. Its short legs have plantigrade feet with three claws and cream-colored soles. The tip of its long, powerful tail had a flame burning on it. It was Charmeleon. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Congratulation, Charmander had evolved ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Charmeleon had an arrogant look on its face. It was the side effect of evolution. Axel slowly walked close to it and said with a happy face "Congrats, Charmand¡­ I mean Charmeleon. You have evolved. I know evolution has affected your mental state. But calm down and it will all be ok" But Charmeleon turned to Axel and gave a huge roar. It then fired a flamethrower towards Axel. The flame went right past him but he knew that it was a warning to stay back. ''I took care of it for the past 3 months, now it is showing its fangs to me? I should teach it a lesson now'' thought Axel. "Charmeleon! Control yourself, otherwise, I would have to teach you a lesson" said Axel with an angry tone. But Charmander started to laugh. In its head, it was the most powerful Pokemon now. That''s what evolution does to a Pokemon. Charmander fired another flamethrower towards Axel and this was not a warning shot. Before anyone could even block it, Gogoat came rushing down and stood in front of Axel. The flames hit Gogoat and dust flew. After the dust settled, everyone could see Gogoat in its full glory without any damage. A, moved to control the situation as it was way out of hand now. "Stop, let him handle it," said Roman. He was also present today as it was lecture day. "But Axel could get hurt. We should help him" "No, we should let him be. This is something every trainer has to go through. If we help him now, Charmeleon would never respect Axel as a trainer. So sit back and relax for now" Pokemon POV "What is the meaning of this Mama? Step aside, I don''t want you to get hurt" said Charmander to Gogoat. Since Gogoat was the one who gave its milk to Charmander, Charmander called her ''Mama'' and it called Axel ''Father''. Yeah, it was a weird concept. Nobody could understand it. "The evolution has wreaked your brains, my child. Take a deep breath and see, these are your father and your boss and your friends. Don''t you love them?" said Gogoat. "Haha, you are wrong. Evolution has made me intelligent. For years, I have been treated like a slave and told how weak I am" "Bro, you are only 3 months old. How could you suffer for years?" said Nidorino. "Years, months, all are the same thing. Now I am the strongest one here. I challenge the boss for battle. I want his position. Now I will be the boss" declared Charmander. Nidorino stepped in front of Charmander defending Marcus. Charmeleon had become powerful but it was equally stupid too. It didn''t even know that fire type attacks were super effective against Marcus. That is why Nidorino defended Marcus. "You would have to go through me," said Nidorino. "Haha, the more, the merrier. I don''t mind" said Charmander getting ready for battle. But Marcus came from behind and blocked Nidorino''s view and said "It''s okay Nidorino. I am not so weak that I could not even handle a small child. Come Charmeleon, let me show you why I am the boss" said Marcus with authority. Chapter 78 - Marcus VS Charmeleon Seeing Marcus and Charmeleon ready to fight, Axel was confused. He knew what was going on, Charmeleon had challenged Marcus, but he didn''t want them to fight. But Charmeleon''s behavior was already out of hand, so he knew that it should be done. So, he steeled his resolve and let it happen. But he could already guess the result of the fight. And his guess was right. 5 minutes earlier "I will be the referee of this battle" said Roman. Both of the Pokemons got into their position. They both had arrogant faces like the battle was in their bags. Axel would not be instructing them in battle. "Let the battle, Begin!!" shouted Roman. Pokemon POV Charmeleon immediately used ''dragon dance'' to power up itself. Meanwhile, Marcus started running towards few trees. The dragon dance was completed 1 time and it didn''t use again. Charmeleon started chasing Marcus. "What happened boss? Already scared? You know, you could just give up the fight." It laughed out loud like it was finally going to have its revenge. It then started using ''flamethrower'' over Marcus. None of the moves connected as Marcus was using a combination of ''agility'' and ''shadow sneak''. There were now over 5 trees making a ''V'' line pattern and Charmeleon was in the middle of it. By this time, Marcus had already disappeared in the shadows. "Come here and fight. You always called me a child. Now, who is hiding like one?" roared Charmeleon and started using ''flamethrower'' all over the place. It was midday, and the flames added heat in the field. Marcus came from behind and used ''hypnosis'' on Charmeleon. But it didn''t seem to have any effect on it. Due to the evolution, its body was energized, so ''hypnosis'' only seemed to irritate Charmeleon. But Marcus didn''t stop. It would come out from one place using '' hypnosis'' and disappear. And then it would come out of another place. The trees may be on ''V'' line pattern, but due to midday, the place was covered with shadows. Marcus had purposely run to this place to get the advantage. Charmeleon didn''t know about this or maybe it simply didn''t care. It was the most powerful Pokemon now, or so it had thought. But it was unable to even land a single hit. This was making it frustrating. Charmeleon used ''dragon rush'' 3 times and due to the speed of the move with ''dragon dance'', Marcus was hit one time. But anyone could have guessed that it did zero damage. Because Marcus was immune to it. This chase and run went for 3 minutes. "I always told you, child, never to underestimate an opponent. You need to listen more" said Marcus. "Then why are you hiding boss? Fight me face to face" roared Charmeleon. By this time, Charmeleon was huffing and puffing. It had already used ''dragon rush'' 3 times and the move consumed a lot of stamina. It may have evolved and improved but the move still made it tired. "Ok then, let''s fight head-on" shouted Marcus showing a fearless expression. Charmeleon came running. Its right-hand claw was glowing and getting bigger now. This was ''dragon claw'' that it had learned before. But it fell to the ground. The fall was not natural and Charmeleon was trying its best to get up. It was succeeding slowly. This move was ''gravity'' that Marcus had learned before. Immediately after that, a peculiar sound wave came towards Charmeleon and almost destroyed its eardrum. It was ''bug buzz'', Charmeleon had use its hands to cover its ears, but it hurt itself as the ''dragon claw'' was still active. Marcus didn''t miss this chance and continued using ''bug buzz''. The move affected it more. Marcus would alternate between ''shadow sneak'' combined with ''tackle'' and ''bug buzz''. After some time, Charmeleon was almost going to faint. Before it fainted it looked at Marcus. It still could not believe that it was losing. None of its moves were connected or had any damage. ''Maybe that is why he is the boss'' it thought. But Marcus said "You have anger and hate in your eyes, but you are still family. And family should live in peace. Because the more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war" Hearing this, Charmeleon finally fainted. Pokemon POV end The battle may have looked extremely easy for Marcus, but only it knew how hard it was. Marcus had planned this battle for weeks. Axel had told it, Charmeleon''s nature could drastically change after it evolved and it may become arrogant. So, Marcus had deduced that it would directly challenge the boss, a.k.a itself. So, Marcus had been thinking of Charmeleon''s moves and ability and planning its battle. And finally, it had won. If only a single ''flamethrower'' among dozens of it had somehow hit it, it would have been a goner. The battle went exactly as Axel thought. He thought that Charmeleon would lose terribly and it did happen. He noted down all the problems of Charmeleon''s training and thought to improve it in later stages. First, Charmeleon had a habit of using its moves as it was instructed by Axel. So, it never planned its moves. ''Dragon dance'' at the beginning was unnecessary. It increased attack and speed. Charmeleon didn''t have any direct attack move that could hurt Marcus (it only had ember and flamethrower that could hurt Marcus. Both are sp. Attack moves). And as for speed, Marcus was insanely fast, and the increase in speed was not going to affect it much. The second thing was Charmeleon''s knowledge. It didn''t even know that Marcus is immune to dragon-type moves. The third would be that it was not observant. Marcus purposely led it to the trees where it could use its ''shadow sneak'' better. One of the many strategies which impressed Axel was Marcus using multiple ''hypnosis'' in the beginning. It didn''t have any direct effect on Charmeleon, as its body was energized with evolution energy but it broke Charmeleon''s balance. It had just evolved. Its stats and move powers may have increased but it was not stabilized. It was wild and haywire. And ''hypnosis'' just affected its energy balance even more. Axel was surprised at Charmeleon''s stupidity. It used ''dragon rush'' 3 times. It was a stamina-draining move and it had no effect on Marcus. But when Marcus used ''gravity'' and put Charmeleon to the ground he knew the game was over. ''Gravity'' had now destroyed, the already disturbed energy balance of Charmeleon. ''Bug buzz'' was just the cherry on top. It had further contributed to energy imbalance. And before he knew it the game was over. This battle was not like a battle of equal, or battle of a powerful monster and a smart one or even like a rookie with experienced. This battle was like a battle of a mortal against a god. The difference between them was like heaven and earth. Like a son and father when it came to the matter of s?x. Or like a frog in a well with an eagle in the sky. Charmeleon was not very hurt. It just needed to cool down for some time and take some rest. But this was the first battle that Charmeleon ever lost. Chapter 79 - Fighting with Eevee Charmeleon had calmed down after it woke up. Axel gave it a long lecture on how badly it battled without thinking and what should it do to improve it. But its nature was not like when it was Charmander. Its pride was hurt because of the loss and it had planned to work hard from now ''At least I am better than Nidorino'' It thought. How very wrong it was. If it had challenged Nidorino, it would have lot terribly. Charmeleon, though evolved was the weakest Pokemon in the team now. Except for Kakuna. But even Axel didn''t know how powerful it would become after it completes its final evolution to Beedrill. Axel finally looked at Charmeleon''s stats ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon''s name: Charmeleon (Age- 3 months) Pokemon Nickname: None Ability: Blaze Hidden ability: Solar Power (Locked) Potential: Black Health: 300/300 Attack: F Agility: F Defense: F Moves :- Dragon dance (Egg move) (Lvl 9)*, Dragon rush (Egg move) (Lvl 13)*, Dragon Energy (Egg move), Scratch (Lvl 12)*, Ember (Lvl 10 max)*, Dragon claw (Lvl 8)*, Flamethrower (Lvl 2)* ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª All of its stats were F-ranked. But Axel already expected it. The four moves, ''dragon dance'', ''dragon rush'', ''ember'' and ''dragon claw'' had leveled up quite a bit. ''Flamethrower'' had also leveled up to 2. It seemed that fire energy of Charmeleon had increased Charmeleon''s behavior said that it was now in its puberty stage. It didn''t act frankly with Axel like before. It didn''t have a good relationship with the team like in the past. But it started training hard. The lecture that Axel gave was like a holy grail for Charmeleon. Axel had expected its nature to change but he still missed that gullible, cute, and pranky Charmander. Maybe this is how parents feel when their children grew up. Happy and sad at the same time The group didn''t have the energy to train today. So, Axel went to Mark for research purposes and the 3 brothers went their own ways. -------- "So, how is our cute little Eevee today? Is there any progress" Axel was doing the daily report from the 2 trainers about their Eevees. "Eeveeee" "Eeev" the 2 Eevee said with a cute voice. They seemed happy with their training. "Well, Eevee is getting stronger and we are having quite a good time. I think it is trying to learn ''Psybeam''. So we are concentrating on that." Axel noted all the progress. The research was going well, but Eevee needed a push to evolve. As they were talking, Charmeleon pointed its claws towards Eevee. It wanted to challenge it. Eevee was shocked by Charmeleon. Eevee and Charmeleon had been good friends in the past. Charmeleon had also taught its trademark ''prank techniques'' to it. Since Charmeleon evolved, Eevee wanted to congratulate it but seeing such a look and arrogant words of Charmeleon, it was shocked Axel just put his hands over his head. The changed nature of Charmeleon was affecting everybody. Pokemon POV "You see Eevee, how powerful I have become. I don''t think you can''t stand a single minute with me now. You and your trainer were just stepping stone for me. You should bow down when you see me. Hahaha" said Charmeleon. "Shut your mouth!!. I will show you" said Eevee (the one who was prepared to evolve into Espeon) "Show me what? Just walk away with your tail behind your legs." Said Charmeleon. Pokemon POV end If Charmeleon was going to shit on every trainer''s Pokemon, then Axel would have a huge problem. They were already starting to fight. "Let our Pokemon settle their differences. I would stop the fight if something bad is going to happen" said Axel and the trainer also calmed down. With its anger, Eevee used ''quick attack''. This time Charmeleon didn''t start with ''dragon dance'' as Eevee was coming in fast. Charmeleon dodged the attack and fired with ''flamethrower''. Eevee could not control its speed and was hit with it. ''Flamethrower'' may be the move that Charmeleon just learned, but it was powerful nonetheless. Eevee again used ''quick attack'' and Charmeleon dodged it again. At least it think it did. Just as Charmeleon dodged that attack, Eevee turned its body to the left side and hit Charmeleon with ''quick attack''. The move connected and as Charmeleon was gaining its bearings, Eevee used ''bite'' on Charmeleon''s hand. Charmeleon cried in pain. But it had already learned its lesson from Marcus. It concentrated on the battle, used ''dragon claw'' from the unbitten hand and tried to smash it on Eevee''s head. Thankfully, Eevee dodged it and backed up in time. Charmeleon didn''t let it rest and used ''flamethrower'' again. Eevee tried to dodge it but was unsuccessful. The move hit the same part of the body again and now, Eevee was injured. Comparing to body stats, Charmeleon was way above Eevee but its speed was slower. They continued their little fight for about 3 minutes. Charmeleon had been hit by a couple of ''quick attacks'' but the battle was not in Eevee''s favour. Charmeleon now had a smug look on its face because he knew that Eevee was going to lose. Eevee''s trainer was scared. The look of fear could be seen in his eyes. Just a day ago, Eevee was stronger than Charmeleon. They had never fought but he also knew how powerful Charmander was. Eevee had never lost a fight till now. So, seeing all those injuries pile up on Eevee''s body, he was worried. He said, "Eevee, just give up. You are very hurt now. I don''t want you to be seriously injured." Finally, a ''flamethrower'' connected and Eevee was hit. It was now down on the ground. Charmeleon knew that it had won. Suddenly, a purple glow started to surround Eevee. "Huh! Is it evolving?" Chapter 80 - The World Shall Know The purple glow slowly got bigger. The process took almost a minute. Charmeleon didn''t disturb the evolution. Evolution is considered a sacred ritual among Pokemons. So, the Pokemons would not disturb the process until it was completed. Charmeleon may be stupid and arrogant but it was also a proud Pokemon. It would not disturb the sacred ritual. Finally, the purple glow suddenly vanished and a completely different Pokemon came into view. This was the first sighting of Espeon The trainer ran towards Espeon picking it up and hugging it. Espeon didn''t seem to have changed in its nature as it evolved due to enough friendship. But its demeanor gave a m?tur? look to its face. Mark and Axel were also there to witness this evolution. Mark was dancing with joy. "We did it Axel, we finally did it. It is a new discovery. Ho ho¡­." He was babbling on and on. But Axel was also extremely happy. He knew there would be a positive result. But knowing and witnessing were 2 different things. But he completed his responsibility first. He went to pacify Charmeleon as it was ready to go again. Though he was angry with Charmeleon, it was still a baby in his eyes. After some time, Charmeleon decided to stop the battle and challenge it another day. Charmeleon was the reason, that Eevee had evolved. So, he gave some extra roasted meat to it as thanks. Mark, Axel and the 2 trainers had a small party for their achievement. After some drinks, Mark stood up and bowed to Axel at a 90 degree angle and said, "Axel, I really want to thank you for letting me be a part of this research." "Mark, you don''t have to bow to me. Straighten up, it is embarrassing" "No, I should. I know how selfless it is of you to share your work. The work that you were confident to succeed. If there is anything that you want, please let me know" Mark and Axel thought to examine Espeon tomorrow as its energy after evolution had still not stabilized. After some fun, Axel went home. He had decided to focus more on Charmeleon from tomorrow. It had just evolved and it was arrogant and proud. It would need a good amount of attention and proper direction to m?tur?. ¡ª¡ª¡ª Middle of night, Tring Tring! Tring Tring! Tring Tring! Tring Tring! Katchak!! "Hey Mark, what time is it? Why are you calling me this late?" "AXELLL!!" "Hey man, don''t shout. You are killing my ears. What happened?" "Axel, Something had happened, you need to.." "Mark, calm down. Take a deep breath first. Ok, now tell me" "Axel, the other Eevee is evolving right in front of my eyes, oh! It had already evolved now, it looks black. Just come here ASAP" Axel put on some slippers. All of his Pokemons woke up. And with his Pokemons, he ran towards Mark''s laboratory. He had not expected 3 evolutions within 24 hours. First Charmeleon, then Espeon and now Umbreon. When life gives you happiness, it never comes in installment. By the time he reached, he could see 3 people with their Pokemons, surrounding another Pokemon. It was a Pokemon that had a sleek, black body with four slender legs and crimson eyes. It had two pairs of pointed teeth (one in the upper jaw and one in the lower jaw) which were visible when its mouth was open. It had long, pointed ears and a bushy tail, each with a yellow band around them. Its forehead and legs have yellow rings on them. "Axel, thank Arceus you arrived. I don''t think my heart to take all this happiness at once." Said Mark hugging him tightly. Mark was on the roll right now. He and Axel had found a brand new type of Pokemon species, that had never been recorded in human history. "Hmm, it seemed to be a dark type Pokemon. And Espeon is a psychic type. Both of these types are quite rare" Axel said examining Umbreon. Unlike Espeon, Umbreon seemed to be slightly disturbed after evolution. But it quickly came to its normal nature. "So, what do you want to call this Pokemon species?" asked Axel. Unlike most of the Pokemons who say their name, like ''Bulba'' said by ''Bulbasaur'', Espeon and Umbreon just gave a cute roar. So they could not determine their species name. (This is different from anime as in anime, they call out their name) Axel had named the psychic type as ''Espeon'' and the group approved it. "You are the head researcher, you choose it?" said Mark. "But I already named Espeon. Why don''t you choose a new name for this dark type?" said Axel. "Axel, I may be greedy but not a hypocrite. You are the head researcher. You have invested years in it. I could not do it." Mark was adamant about this. "Ok, I would call you Umbreon!!" announced Axel. "Kooo" said Umbreon. It seemed happy with the name. The group celebrated again. The party didn''t stop till the morning. "The world shall know the 2 new evolution of Eevee. This is a groundbreaking discovery and it is all because of this silver-haired boy. To Axel!!" said Mark raising his glass of whiskey. "TO AXEL!" said the rest by raising their cup too. Axel was slightly embarrassed with this but was obviously happy. "Mark since we made this new discovery, what are the benefits that we would get?" Axel asked finally. Chapter 81 - A Shiny Evolution Time Skip, after 5 days, Today was the day, Kakuna would evolve. It was going to happen in 2 hours, so Axel was excited. He would have another powerful uncommon Pokemon in his team. However, relating to successful research on eeveelution, he was disappointed. When Axel asked what are the benefits that he would receive, the answer was None. At least not now. 5 days before, "None!!, what do you mean none? We worked so hard for this and now you are saying we cannot get any benefits?" raged Axel. "When I say none, I don''t mean we would not get anything. It is just that it would not be now. Our research is still not complete. We have found 2 new evolutions but there are a lot of things to do first" "And what are those things?" "First of all we have to prove it" "But we already proved it by evolving them!" "I mean we have to prove it on paper. I have to formally write a paper and present it to the league. Then the league would investigate if our research is true. Then we would get the benefits" "Ohh, and what benefits we would get?" "That I don''t know" "What? But how can you not know?" "This is the first research of mine that is being sent to the league. And the internal things like getting the benefit have never been revealed to the public. But don''t worry, we would get some rewards. Venu family would also give you a reward. What is it? I don''t know. But I except a lot of points, some rare materials to your liking." "So, how much time do we need to write the paper?" asked Axel. "We have documented most of our things, so I expect around a week. I know you are busy, so I would do it myself" "Why do we need a week for that? Can we finish it in a day?" asked Axel. "Axel, we have to write a perfect paper with no mistakes. There may be some hidden things that could get us in trouble if we write it causally. So I think we need to check it and recheck it multiple times before we finalize our paper" Present-day, As per Mark''s estimate, the whole process would take almost a month. So now he had nothing to do in the research field. The group was in Kakuna''s training field watching it closely. As per Axel''s ''feeling'', Kakuna would evolve today at any moment. And almost all of Axel''s ''feeling'' come true. So they were excited, especially A. He was the one who had given Axel multiple advice on training Beedrill. Many trainers are not so fond of Bug-type Pokemon. There were many reasons for it. First of all, the Pokemons were bug-type so most of the trainers find them ugly. And the most important reason would be the bug-type Pokemon itself. They considered the Bug type to be the weakest Pokemon typing. Of course, it was wrong. This seemed to be like a trend. The older generation never thought that bug types were weak. Axel didn''t know how this prejudice spread. But any prejudice, like asians cannot drive or canadians are afraid of the dark, this also must have spread through rumor. But he was going to show the world how powerful a bug type Pokemon could be. While he was thinking about it, He heard the ''ding!'' sound of the system ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Evolution extension condition has been met. Kakuna would start to evolve in 30 seconds ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Axel went near to Kakuna and stared at it. Kakuna was normally 2 feet in height. But his Kakuna was almost 6 feet. Even Mark had said that this is the biggest Kakuna he had ever seen. So he was excited about how powerful it would become after it evolved into Beedrill. A colorful combination of green and purple glow surrounded Kakuna. The glow was extremely bright and beautiful. Slowly the glow extended to a massive height. From 6 feet to 7 feet, then 8,9¡­.. And finally to 11 feet. The glow slowly dimmed as if all the colors were being devoured by the Pokemon inside. And then the glow sparkled enough for the group to close their eyes and then it vanished. The evolution took almost a minute. And the group could hear a huge buzzing sound from the Pokemon. It was a Pokemon that mostly resembled a bipedal, green wasp; however, it only had four legs instead of six and lacks pigmented pigs. Its head was round with a slightly pointed mouth, large, blue eyes, and grey antennae with a sharp bend in the middle. Its forelegs were tipped with long, conical stingers. It stood on its other two legs, which were long, segmented, and insectoid in shape. It had two pairs of rounded, veined wings, and another stinger on its green-and-black striped abdomen. It was Beedrill. A shiny Beedrill. Beedrill seemed to be closing its eyes, as the evolution energy seemed to be too huge for it to handle. It didn''t want to hurt others but due to the huge amount of energy, it got suddenly it started lashing out randomly. The group stayed back, with Axel trying to pacify it. Nidorino was ready to subdue it if it went out of hand. Axel had learned his lesson with Charmeleon. So he had instructed Nidorino to handle these situations. After 5 minutes, it was slowly gaining control over it. It took almost 15 minutes for Beedrill to be normal. Axel was surprised by its control. Normally a Pokemon would start to get arrogant when it evolved. Beedrill had consumed a lot of resources and energy from the environment around. So, Axel had excepted to its post evolution to go disastrously wrong. But Beedrill held it in. As for Beedrill, Axel gave it a new life, new friends, and family. The respect and love it had for Axel were sky-high. Axel had already told it about the evolution of Nidorino and Charmeleon. So, it tried its best to control and it had succeeded. Now, Axel had 3 Pokemon who were uncommon ranked. Things would get interesting from now on. Chapter 82 - Beedrill ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon''s name :- Beedrill (Age- 5 months) Pokemon Nickname :- None Ability :- Swarm* Hidden ability :- Sniper* Potential :- Purple* Health :- 350/350 Attack :- F Agility :- F Defense :- F Sp. Atk :- F Sp. Def :- F Moves: Poison Sting (Lvl 6)*, String Shot (Lvl 4), Bug Bite (Lvl 4)*, Electroweb(Lvl 2), Harden (Lvl 10 max)* ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Beedrill had become a fine Pokemon. The thing that surprised Axel was its potential. Its potential had increased from ''Red'' to ''Purple''. Beedrill did took a lot of resources and the surrounding was ideal for it. But he was happy about it nonetheless. Its ability changed from ''Shed skin'' to ''Swarm'' and it gained a new hidden ability ''Sniper''. ''Swarm'' increased the power of its buy type moves by 50% when its health decreased bellow third of its maximum. Since it just gained this ability, Axel didn''t expect the power to be increased by 50%. If it was 10% now, Axel would be happy. As for Sniper, it increased the power of critical hits by 2 times and also increased critical hit ratio. In games, sniper didn''t increase critical hit ratio but in real life it did. This means a critical hit would deal 3 times normal damage. What made Axel really happy was that both of those abilities were unlocked. So, he could train Beedrill on those abilities instantly. Axel reminded himself to make a training plan to train his Pokemons ability as he had not done so in the past. Besides ability, potential and Beedrill''s size, all the other factors of Beedrill made Axel disappointed. All of its stats were F-ranked as expected. But Axel knew that Beedrill''s stats were far lower than Nidorino. This was because none of Beedrill''s stats were S ranked before its evolution. Axel could not do anything about it as the evolution extended condition of Beedrill was different from Nidorino and Charmeleon. The final thing that Beedrill lacked the most was move mastery. Since it was on the evolution process for so long, Beedrill didn''t have any time to master its moves. It had great potential and was already an uncommon ranked Pokemon, but training in moves and battle strategy took time. It took Nidorino 3-4 months of constant training to be what it is now. However, Axel calmed down and thought long and hard. If it takes time, he would not mind. Beedrill may be late compared to its peers but it had its competitive advantage. Axel had already thought of a training plan for Beedrill and he would start it by tomorrow. Today, it needed to stabilize its evolution energy. There were many additional moves he wanted Beedrill to master. Beedrill is a fast Pokemon with good attack power. That was what he always imagined. He wanted Beedrill to have a high speed with critical attack power. So, he decided that Beedrill would focus on these things: 1. Electroweb: It is an electric type move that would be effective against flying and water type Pokemon. Especially, flying type Pokemon. It also decreased the speed of the target which was a nice bonus for a high-speed Pokemon like Beedrill. 2: Poison jab: It dealt damage and had a chance to poison the target. ''Sludge bomb'' also had the same effect with better damage percentage but Axel chose poison jab. Axel wanted Beedrill to be a close combat fighter and poison jab fits the bill. Poisoning its target with its drill would be deadly. 3. Fell Stinger: It was a bug type, physical move. Beedrill attacks would dramatically rise if it knocks the target with this move. It was a perfect counter for psychic type as psychic Pokemon normally had a low physical defense. All in all, this move was a combination of support type (For increase in attack) and physical damage type 4. Roost: Though Beedrill would have high speed, it may receive damage since Axel thought to train it in close combat. That is where Roost comes in. The description of Roost was different from games. It did increase user''s health by half (if mastered fully) but after the effect vanishes, it would have a severe weakness for the user for a certain time. That is why trainers normally didn''t train their Pokemon in this move. But Axel wanted to train it. Because if it is mastered, the weakness would have a negligible effect on the user. However, it takes a long time for this move to master as Roost is a complicated move. 5. Drill run: Drill run is a ground type move that increases critical hit ratio. The user crashes into its target while rotating its body like a drill. For any other Pokemon, it would be a normal move with many disadvantages. However, Beedrill was different. This would be the most powerful move of Beedrill among these 5 moves that Axel wished to train it. Why? In normal cases, a Pokemon would have to literally rotate its body like a drill and smash the target. This had many disadvantages. A drill, any drill would move on a straight line, so the Pokemon would have to sacrifice its flexibility. If the opponent dodged it and counters it from another side, it would be venerable. However, it was different for Beedrill. Since it had ''drill'' on its name, it didn''t need to rotate its whole body for the attack. It only needed to rotate its 2 pointy drills to stab the target. Thus not sacrificing its flexibility. When using drill run, its critical hit ratio would increase. Since Beedrill has a hidden ability ''Sniper'' which increases critical hit ratio and damage on critical hit by 2 times, Drill run would be a monstrous move. As per Axel calculation, if Beedrill mastered drill run and sniper, then the chances of drill run having a critical hit would be 90%. This is what makes Beedrill''s drill run a broken move if it is mastered fully. And sniper also increased normal damage by 3 times if it hit the move critically. As per games, drill run has 80 attack power. So a fully Drill run and sniper mastered Beedrill could deal 240 damage to the opponent which makes this move pretty broken. Of course, attack power could not be quantified in real life as it depends on various factors like body stats, mastery and many more. And the final reason what makes Drill run an OP move is, it is super effective against, poison, rock, steel, fire and electric type Pokemon. Beedrill is weak against flying, rock, fire and psychic type. This move is effective against 2 of the 4 weaknesses of Beedrill. Fell Stringer and Electroweb handled the other 2 weaknesses. Chapter 83 - Aura Unlocked The place was surrounded by lush grass, trees. The sound of Pidgey chirping could be heard from the trees. Right across the tree, a boy with light silver hair up to his shoulders to be seen, cross-legged, meditating with his eyes closed. He was so deep in the meditation that he had almost become part of nature. Normal people would not have notice him if they didn''t look carefully. This boy''s name was Axel Blaze. Axel had been doing this routine for more than 2 months now. He was is Aura training time. But after some time, something peculiar happened, that gave a smile to Axel''s face. He could slowly sense the surroundings; the trees, the flowing grass, small pebbles on the ground and also a number of Pidgey on top of those trees. When he focused on a particular Pidgey, he could feel its life force, its infinity energy inside it, and also it''s feeling. The Pidgey seemed relaxed and lazy with no immediate tension inside its head. Axel could know what that Pidgey was feeling. Slowly he opened his eyes and tried to be normal. Axel had finally learned Aura. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Ding! Congratulations, you have learned Aura (Initial mastery). Aura tabbed has been unlocked. Ding! A new active ability is learned, ''Aura sense''. You could now sense the surroundings and feel if the Pokemon is hostile or not. Ding! A huge achievement. Your intellect has increased by 20 Ding! Your passive skill Identify has leveled up by 1 ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Axel was shocked when looking at the notification. He had finally learned an active skill. There are many uses of aura like reading minds and preventing mind control, but he believed that he would learn it at the later stages. He was right with his intellect stats. Intellect had stopped increasing after reaching a certain threshold so he guessed that it would increase after he learned Aura. Leveling up ''Identify'' was a nice bonus. Since he learned Aura, his sensing capabilities have increased, thus leveling his ''identify'' skill. He had finally learned Aura, so, now he didn''t have to be a permanent member of Venu family. He had also fulfilled his second last condition of getting a Bulbasaur. Now, he only needed approval from the leader of Venusaur, it''s family and the Pokemon itself. That day, the group had a huge party. Elder Adam and Mark, with the 3 brothers were invited. Now only 5 days were left before he left Venu family. Over these 3 months, he had been very attached to Venu family. Its guards, elders, the 3 brothers, training fields, and the forest have now become a part of his life now. Axel was now comfortable with this. But he knew he had to change this lifestyle and go outside to explore the world. Another good news would be Mark submitting their research paper to the league. It was been done 2 weeks ago and the league had approved their research field. Axel may not know the ripple that was caused by these research papers, but the league was shocked. This was 2 new evolution of Eevee and the head researcher was not even 14 years old. Axel research has yet not been published on the public platform. It would be done after the league rewarded Axel for his appreciable work. ---------- As Axel was celebrating his achievement, he felt a tap on his shoulder. Axel turned around and found elder Adam smiling. Axel was a bit shocked by this sudden encounter. Axel had learned ''Aura sense'' but he still could not sense elder Adam right behind him. ''Seems like Aura could also hide your sense'' Axel thought. "Good morning elder Adam" Axel greeted with a smile. "You have become quite a celebrity, huh Axel. The leader wants to see you now" said Adam. "The leader wants to see me? But for what reason?" "Oh, I don''t know. Maybe she wants to reward you for your research. You have done a great service to Venu family. Venu family''s influence would rapidly increase with your work. So, don''t hesitate to ask for a better reward." "Oh, thanks elder Adam" "Mention not. But don''t tell the leader I told you this. The leader would kill me." said Adam with a low voice. "Haha, ok." "Come on, I will escort you to the leader''s house" Axel and Adam walked to the leader''s house laughing and talking about their daily life. This was the 3rd time he would be meeting the leader. The first 2 times were when he decided to join the Venu family. He had met the leader in the meeting hall not in her house. So this would be the first time he would be meeting her in her house. Unlike what Axel had imagined, the leader''s house was ordinary like any other members of Venu family. There were 5 colonies in Venu family, with 5 different designs. So, houses in one colony would have the same design. The leader''s house was 3 stories tall, with a small garden with a dark green and purple gate. Axel and Adam entered the house and greeted the leader. The leader seemed to be a single mom. Her husband had died in battle. She had 2 siblings, a son and a daughter. The son was around Axel''s age and a good trainer. After serving tea and exchanging pleasantries, Angela (the leader) said "Axel, Adam may have already told you why I called you here today" "Yes, it is about the rewards," said Axel. "And to give my heartfelt gratitude for your service" added Angela with a smile. "I don''t think you know the impact you have made in the world. Discovering 2 new evolutions is a phenomenal achievement. Your research has not been published to the public yet, but after it does, you would be famous, very famous. With this Venu family would step up the ladder and come out of its cocoon like a Butterfree. This is the first influence that the family would have, and a huge one. The resources Venu family would get, the trading business of the family, the impact of the family in the region and in the world would be on the next level. Kanto region had always dominated other 7 regions and your research would cement that position now. You should give yourself some credit." Chapter 84 - World Famous Axel was stunned by this news. He knew he would be famous, but he didn''t know that the impact of his work will reach the world. Axel also noticed that Angela is the kind of woman who loves to give a long speech. But he was happy with it as he got to learn a lot of things. "The league will decide to give you the rewards after some time. What the reward will be? Even I don''t know. It depends on the influence the work would create. As you already know, Venu family would get 20% of the benefits of the league. But I have a proposal for you." Said Angela "Ohh. Ok, I will hear it" "Normally, in this case, you would get some points as a reward from Venu family. But I want you to contribute 70% of the rewards to Venu family. In return, you would get some points, be promoted to elite member, get to choose 1 reward from the treasury up to elite rank Pokemon and 1 wish. Mind you, the wish should not be impractical." This was quite a pickle. He didn''t know what the league would reward him with. But the benefits given by Angela were also good. He didn''t care much about his promotion in rank. But to get to choose 1 reward and completion of 1 wish was enticing. Axel kept thinking. After 2 minutes he said "I agree with it but I want 2 wishes instead of 1" "That is too much. I could increase your points reward but getting another wish is a deal-breaker for me" said Angela shaking her head. "Hear me out first. My first wish is that I want a Bulbasaur. So, I want your Venusaur recommendation. As for my second wish, I would think about it" "I could give you the recommendation, but you should also have a rare ranked Pokemon and have unlocked your Aura or Psychic ability. If you could not do it, even I am helpless. Venusaur group are quite strict on this" said Angela It looked like even the leader of the family could not do anything about it. But Axel said: "I have already fulfilled the condition. I now have a rare ranked Pokemon and have unlocked my Aura" "What??!!!" shouted elder Adam standing up from his chair. Adam seemed shocked with his. He knew Axel already had a rare ranked Pokemon now but having unlocked Aura within 3 months was a very rare case. "Yes, I have just unlocked my Aura today," said Axel with a smile. "You also have a rare ranked Pokemon except for that Gogoat of yours?" asked Angela. She didn''t even know that Nidorino had ranked up. It was given as she was the leader and could not know all the things. Axel nodded his head. Angela then said, "Ok, I agree with your condition. Giving you the recommendation is not a big deal for me anyway. When would you be leaving the family? You have grown sufficiently strong now" "I plan to leave after 10 days after getting my Bulbasaur." said Axel. --------- The next day, Axel''s and Mark''s research was published to the public. And it shocked the world. Breaking news! "2 researchers of Venu family have discovered 2 new eeveelutions. A psychic type called Espeon and a dark type called Umbreon. The head researcher, Axel Blaze is told to be only 13 years old and he is the first outsider of the Venu family. It is quite shocking news. What do you say Brad?" "Well, Alexis, it is time that Venu family step up their game. For hundreds of years, they have been in isolation without caring about the outside world. But none of us expected that their entrance would be so big" "What do you feel about Axel Blaze? And he being the first outsider of Venu family? Don''t you feel that your competition is rising, since you are a core member of Toise family?" "Axel Blaze is a promising trainer. And we have already witnessed his knowledge in the research field. I believe he would be a great ?sset to Kanto region. Regarding the decision of Venu family, it is quite obvious for them to include him as a member. Venu family wants to be isolated, but it is not stupid. Every family including my Toise family would be happy to have him as a member. And as for the competition, Venu family would need to do a lot to stand toe to toe with Toise family. Besides, It is all for the betterment of the region." "Oh, so you think¡­." Axel was watching the news on television. His parents had called him to congratulate. His mom was very happy that the news was talking about her son. Axel also received a call from Mr. Koga. But Axel was not just the one seeing the news. The whole world was shocked by listening to it. "Damn!! That guy is a monster. Not 1 evolution, but 2?" "Yeah, and he is only 13 years old." "Maybe I could also get into Venu family. It seems far better than the other 2 families." "Yeah look at Axel. 3 months and he is already an elite member" Meanwhile in Blackthron city, Johto region "Just who is his guy? Is he a trainer too?" roared Dragon "Yes, he is" said Lance''s uncle. "How powerful is he now?" "That we don''t know. Venu family has been hiding is information" "Then find out about it. I want to know" said Dragon. "Lance, look like you would have a tough opponent" murmured Dragon in a low voice. Somewhere in Hoenn region "Did you hear the news?" asked Glacia, an elite 4 member. The meeting was between the elite 4 members and the champion of Hoenn region. And the topic of Discussion was Axel Blaze. "You mean this shit!" said Drake, the dragon-type master slamming the newspaper in the table. "Sir Drake, you are a Champion. Please maintain your dignity" said Sidney a dark-type master. "Humph. I know you are happy. A new dark Pokemon was discovered." said Drake. Drake was now the current champion of the Hoenn region. This was the time when the protagonist Ash Ketchum has not even born. "Drake, I don''t think there is a need to worry. The guy is just a good researcher, not a good trainer. Region''s power is determined with a powerful trainer" said Alexsis. "No, you are wrong. I have an instinct that this kid is a powerful trainer. At least he would be to make a difference. And you know, my instinct is never wrong" said Drake. "Glacia, we should start that training for Steven" said Drake. "That training is would be hard for him. He just started his journey" replied Glacia. "No, the time has come for him. For centuries, the Kanto region has always been at the top. It had now almost swallowed the Johto region. It is already late now. We must prepare. And start to personally train Wallace too" said Drake. "Drake, Wallace is only 6 yr old. It would be inhuman of us!!" said Glacia in a loud voice. "Believe me Glacia. Do as I say. Just start a normal training for him now. Get him a Pokemon of his d?s?r?. I have a feeling that Wallace would be something great in the future" Somewhere in Sinnoh region "Did you hear the news? About that Axel blaze?" said a young voice in the darkroom. "I know, it is quite surprising. Venu family have started to show their horns" said an old woman. "Why are you worried about Venu family? I am talking about that young trainer" "You young generation do not know. But the Venu family holds some powerful secret. It is one of the pillars of the Kanto region. It still holds the most power among the 3 starter families. It is also very strong compared to our family. Hu hu¡­ Looks like our little Cynthia would have a good competition" Chapter 85 - Farewell Bulbasaur One may expect, Axel to be busy with many letters, people, and press conferences after his research goes published. But he was having a normal morning. He was greeted and congratulated by some members of the Venu family on street, and he had received many emails from his well-wishers. But he had not opened any of them right now. Today was an important day for him. This was the day, he was going to select his Bulbasaur. "Congratulations Axel, you are finally getting your Bulbasaur today. I don''t know when I am going to get one" said K with a disappointed face. "Hey, you don''t need to worry about it. Just let your Pidgeotto evolve and train it for a bit. You would have your Bulbasaur in no time" replied Axel patting K''s back. K had already learned Aura. His Aura was more powerful than Axel. It seemed like he was really good with it. Relating to his Pokemons, Sandshrew had evolved to Sandslash and Pidgey to Pidgeotto. K now had an uncommon rank Pokemon. But Axel believed that Pidgeotto would be the first one to reach rare ranked. It had good potential and was more diligent in its training. Getting a Bulbasaur was not a big event but it certainly was a rare one. Very few people could unlock their Aura and Psychic ability in their lifetime. The crazies, Angela, Adam, and Mark went to the Venusaur area in the forest. Many Venusaur, Ivysaur, and Bulbasaur were there lining up in a formation. She went inside the house to talk to a Venusaur. After some time, Axel was called inside. The house was only 1 storied tall. There was only a single room in the house. It was like a big hall with empty space. There was a big stage (Like the one where people performs or sings). Axel could see 2 Venusaur. Those were the ones whom he had met before. And then he could see at least 30 Bulbasaur in the hall. One of them was even shiny!! They had an expectant and excited look on its face. Some of them looked like they didn''t give a damn. Some of them gave an arrogant feeling to Axel. These were the group of Bulbasaur who was ready to go on a journey. Angela said, "Axel, these are the Bulbasaur who are ready to go on the journey. You are expected to spend an entire day with all of them and get to know them and then select 1 Bulbasaur for your party. Do remember, the Pokemon should also approve to be with you. This is an old tradition of the Venusaur family. You must be connected with your Bulbasaur, otherwise, it is a no go" But Axel just looked at those Bulbasaur and pointed out one of them "I want that Bulbasaur" Angela said, "Axel you are supposed to spend some time with them and select one wisely." "But I have already met with this one on a quest and have already decided to catch it" That was the same Bulbasaur that Axel and the group had rescued when they were fighting with Mankey''s group. The Bulbasaur came forward towards Axel and Axel knelt down to meet its height. "Hey buddy, how are you?" "Bulba.." it said as if saying it was doing fine. "Do you want to come with me? I am going to go out and we would explore the world" Axel said looking at its eyes. Axel had expected some resistance but the Bulbasaur immediately said "Bulba.. Bulbasaur" by jumping in joy. It had approved Axel to be its trainer. Bulbasaur had quite a good impression of Axel and he was one of the few humans that it had known except for Angela and some elders. One of the other conditions was to get the approval of Bulbasaur''s parents but Angela had said that she would handle this case. So, Axel was not worried about it. After approval from both the parties, it was now decided that Axel would get Bulbasaur. After 3 months Axel had finally completed all the conditions and got his Bulbasaur. He was over the moon. His happiness could not be described in words. As per the tradition, all the Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, and Venusaur would hold a huge party tonight. This was a farewell party for Bulbasaur. It would leave its family to explore the world. The next day, Axel could not care less about anything right now. He was getting his 6th Pokemon today. He could not catch Bulbasaur yesterday cause it would celebrate its farewell party at night. This was a party where none of them were invited. It was only for Bulbasaur and its evolution line. Axel was now in the same hall where he was yesterday. But the Pokemons and humans who were here today were many more than yesterday. As per the tradition, a ceremony would be held where the Bulbasaur''s parents and its leader would officially hand over Bulbasaur to Axel''s care. Most of Bulbasaur''s relatives, friends, and family were there. From Axel''s side, there were the 3 brothers, all the elders, and the leader Angela. It seemed like marriage was going to happen. The Bulbasaur line took this ceremony very seriously. On the stage, Bulbasaur''s parents were on the side, and Bulbasaur and Axel were in the middle. This was important for Axel too. This was the first time he would see a Champion-ranked Pokemon. Slowly a door opened and a big Venusaur came into view. It slowly walked towards the stage. This Venusaur was massive compared to any normal-sized ones. It was almost double their size. Axel had expected to feel huge pressure from the Pokemon, but it was just the opposite. Even with his ''Aura Sense'', he could not sense anything powerful. It just looked like a normal Pokemon. After going up to the stage it spoke. "Hello everyone, humans and my dear family, I am happy to announce that one of our members would be going on his adventure from today. ....." Venusaur gave a long speech which was 15 minutes long and at last, he said, "¡­.. Now, from this day, I formally announce Bulbasaur a Pokemon of Axel Blaze!" Chapter 86 - Generous rewards It has been 2 hours since Axel had caught Bulbasaur in his Pokeball. Now, Axel was in the training field and Bulbasaur was just getting familiar with its new friends. Charmeleon was acting arrogant like always showing what it can do. But the innocent Bulbasaur had stars in its eyes. It thought Charmeleon was so cool and powerful. Nidorino was friendly and Shedinja was like an ?du?t or boss of the team. As for Gogoat, It just said hello, and kept quiet. Bulbasaur was a very curious Pokemon. Since it had spent all of its time in a small area of the forest, it was excited about anything. It would look round the field, the houses, restaurants and jump in joy. Bulbasaur was 3 months old now. That means it was born on the day Axel came to Venu family. Somehow, it seemed like their meeting was fate. Axel was extremely glad to have such a cute Pokemon. But its stats said otherwise. ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Pokemon''s name: Bulbasaur (Age- 3 months) Pokemon Nickname: None Hidden ability: Chlorophyll Potential: Brown Health: 120/120 Attack: E+ Agility: F++ Defense: D Sp. Atk: E++ Sp. Def: E+ Moves :- Sludge (Lvl 5), Tackle (Lvl 3), Razor leaf (Lvl 6), Vine whip (Lvl 5), Substitute (Lvl 8) ¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª¡ª Bulbasaur was a tank. Its defense and sp. Defense was high. It had higher health at this stage. It had learned all of the primary moves like ''razor leaf'', ''vine whip'' and ''tackle''. It also had learned ''substitute'' which added its tank powers. As for poison-type attacks, it had only learned ''sludge''. But this was more than enough for a wild, 3 months old Pokemon. It seemed like it wanted to be a tank. That is what Axel had thought for Bulbasaur. Today was the day, 2 league representatives would visit Axel and Mark for their rewards. There was a middle-aged woman wearing a formal dress sitting on a chair. On the other side of the chair was another chair which was seated by Axel. Mark was in another room with another representative. The league representative introduced herself as Heena. She looked like she was in her 30s though Axel didn''t inquire about it. A man''s salary and a woman''s age should never be asked. His mother had taught him that. Heena had a trademark smile on her face. It looked like she had practiced this smile for so many years that it almost looked natural now. "Mr. Axel Blaze, the league is happy with your contribution. Since you are only 13 years old, your achievement is highly graded. The rewards you would receive would be much better than normal rewards. The league is doing this to motivate you in your further research." "I would like to thank the league for this generosity." "Ok then, let me tell you about your rewards. Do remember that it is non-negotiable. The league had prepared 4 rewards for you. Your first reward would be Pokedollars. The league would reward you with 50 billion Pokedollars" Axel had a surprised look on his face when he heard it. It also pained him as 70% of it would not be his. "Yeah, even I was shocked by this amount. The maximum cash reward for any new research is was 10 billion Pokedollars until now. It seemed like the league has high expectations from you." Heena continued, "As for the resources, the league would give you 1 lucky egg, 1 life orb, 2 elemental gems of poison type and ghost type and a scope lens. The qualities of all these resources are the highest." If Axel was shocked by the cash reward, his response to this reward could only be described as unbelievable. But he had just learned it from his previous mistake and didn''t show it in his face. "It seems like the league personally chose those rewards for me. I could use all of these rewards," replied Axel. "Yes, actually I was the one who chose those rewards for you. I am a huge fan of your work. Your research and imagination on the research could not be described in words. The lucky egg would be for a new Pokemon at your party. I am sure you have some. The life orb would be for high attacks, the elemental gems are for Nidoran and Shedinja, and Scope lens would be for Beedrill when it evolves. Unfortunately, we could not know what other types of Pokemon you have now. The Venu family has been excellent at keeping your records hidden" Axel didn''t know that the Venu family was hiding his records. But they seemed to be doing a pretty good job. The league didn''t even know that his Nidoran had evolved into Nidorino and was already a rare ranked Pokemon. He guessed that they didn''t even know that he had unlocked Aura, evolved his Weedle to Beedrill and caught a Bulbasaur. But Axel was happy with it. It was better to keep his secret to himself. He was world-famous now. Powerful families, trainers, ?ssociations and leagues of other regions would keep his track. He made a note to thank Angela later. "Now, the third reward. It is one of your choosing. But it should only be up to Pseudo king rank. That means any items or resources could only be used for a Pokemon up to Pseudo king rank. As for the last reward. The league grants you a wish of your own. Yeah, this reward surprised me too. It had never happened before. But your wish should not be unreasonable like wanting a Champion ranked Pokemon. The 3rd and the last wish could be redeemed at any time. Your last wish would depend on your future and current contribution to the league. So please use it strategically." "These are some valuable rewards. I am grateful for it. But, may I ask, why is the league being so generous to me?" "There is no particular reason. You are a young successful researcher. And from what I have heard, a good trainer too. The league just wants you to represent itself on an international level when the time comes. Prof. Oak was the one who decided this. It seems he is very fond of you" Chapter 87 - Group Battle Commence After 4 hours, Axel was now with Mark talking about the rewards that they got. Mark''s reward was far less than Axel. He received 4 Billion dollars as a cash reward and some resources which were not as valuable as Axel''s. It may be because he was not the head researcher or the league didn''t have any expectations from him. When Mark heard what Axel had got, he was surprised. This was the biggest reward the league had given to any new researcher. But Axel had to give 70% of the rewards to the Venu family. Axel got 50 billion Pokedollars as a cash reward. 35 billion of them would go to the Venu family as per the agreement. Angela didn''t care about the 3rd and 4th rewards and said that Axel could use them himself. But as for the items and resources, Angela wanted her part. Axel didn''t care about life orb, so he was happy to give it to the Venu family. But as for elemental gems, scope lens and lucky egg, he was hesitant. So, instead of giving 70% of the cash reward, he gave up 90% of it, as a trade for those items. Axel now had only 5 billion Pokedollars and some change from 50 billion Pokedollars. Axel was happy with this trade. He didn''t care much about the money and 5 billion Pokedollars was still a big amount. He didn''t have an immediate use for it now. 2 days were left, before his completion of 3 months. There was a tournament after 2 days and the crazies were supposed to participate in it. This was just one group battle match with the opposition party. It was like a test to see their improvement of 3 months. This battle was held every 3 months. The highest rank Pokemon a trainer could have was a rare rank. If a trainer evolved his/her Pokemon to elemental rank, he/she would graduate from this group training. Each person in a group could only use 1 Pokemon, so obviously, Axel was going to use Nidorino. He knew that Nidorino had just ranked up to rare ranked Pokemon, so it may not be as powerful as other''s main Pokemon. But it would be a new experience for them. Losing is also a step for success. A, and B, each would use their respective rare ranked Pokemon, and as for K, he would use Pidgeottto. Pidgeotto was the strongest of K''s Pokemon for now. The group had decided that they would think of battle tactics and train their Pokemon together for 2 days. The group had trained together for almost 3 months. So even their Pokemons knew about each other. So, it was not very hard to come up with a good battle strategy. ---------- After 1 day, Axel woke up at 5 a.m. like usual. Today, he didn''t do any training to increase his body stats and allowed his Pokemons to rest. This was because of tomorrow''s group battle. Axel had already completed 2 of his sub-quest given by the system. His body stats had reached the d?s?r?d amount. He had unlocked his Aura. He also had 2 rare ranked Pokemon now. Gogoat and Nidorino. Marcus was the one who trained the most with dedication. But the result of it was not as expected. He didn''t know the reason for it. Though its potential was low compared to others, Axel had thought that its hard work would compensate for it. But that was not the case. Axel knew for the fact that every Pokemon has an advantage and disadvantage. He believed that there is no trash Pokemon, only trash trainers. With this thought, Axel had adopted Shedinja as his Pokemon and trained it. Everyone had said that he was doing a great mistake. His parents, uncle, Mr. Koga, Mark, elder Adam, everyone. But never gave this thing a second thought. But now, it seemed like he was wrong all along. And he was blaming himself for it. He felt that he was not training Marcus in the correct way. "Why? Why is Shedinja such a weak Pokemon? I thought that Arceus always treated its children equally. So, why Shedinja had to go through such a fate?" Axel shouted at the sky seemingly angry at Arceus. ------------ ------------ Ding! Main-quest has been updated. Shedinja had always been a weak Pokemon. Or has it? For thousands of years, it is the only species of Pokemon that don''t even have 1 King ranked to its name. Find out the history of Shedinja and evolve Shedinja to a King ranked Pokemon. Rewards: Unknown Time limit: None ------------ Axel had his mouth open for almost a minute when he saw this notification. ''There is a history of Shedinja from ancient times? At least that is what the system meant by the quest. And Damn! It is the main quest, not a sub-quest.'' Axel thought He only had 2 main quests until now. The first was to become a Pokemon champion and the second was to become the Pokemon master. Completion of these 2 quests would affect his life on a grander level. So, he always thought that the main quest holds much importance compared to the sub quest. So, seeing this main quest of Shedinja, he was shocked. He felt good that he took Marcus into his wings. Otherwise, he would never trigger this quest. There were 9 people in the training field. The 4 crazies, 3 young trainers, Roman the teacher and Smitha, another teacher of the other group. Normally, a group would have only 3 young trainers. But since Axel was an anomaly, the crazies consisted of 4 of them. Axel noticed that his teacher and their teacher seemed to have a rivalry. What he didn''t know was that based on the group performance, the teacher would get some rewards too. "Alright all of you, come into your position. Ramon and I would be the referees of this match. Each trainer would send out only 1 Pokemon in this battle. The battle would end if the group surrender or if all the Pokemons on the group faints. Ramon and I would be the judge of that" announced Smitha. "Send out your Pokemons" said Ramon. The Pokemons in Axel group were Nidorino, Nidorina, Butterfree and Pidgeotto. The Pokemons in the opponent''s group were Golduck, Golbat and Primeape. "Let the Battle Begin!" Chapter 88 - A Long Battle The reaction of the Pokemons from Axel''s side was instant. A howling blizzard was summoned by Nidorina. Pidgeotto and Butterfree flew away as they were weak against ice-type attacks and Nidorino also took a good distance. This was the move ''blizzard'', summoned by Nidorina. The move had powered up greatly compared to a month ago when it was battling Nidorino. For weeks, the group was planning for strategies for the match. But it was impossible. How could you make a battle plan when you don''t even know whom you are battling against? The group they would be battling was a surprise till now, so they came with the most basic strategy. Target the opponent''s weakness! So, the ''blizzard'' was for Golbat. The group had already mastered their own hand signs for targeting the first Pokemon and it was Golbat. They had already thought of starting with a control type move like ''blizzard'' or ''earthquake'' to control the battlefield. Cause whoever controls the battlefield, controls the match. As per the group''s telepathic conversation, Golduck and Golbat should be dealt with first. Golduck could have an ice type move which would be super effective against Pidgeotto and Butterfree, and Golbat could be an annoying Pokemon to deal with. Primeape, however, was on the low side. Don''t ever think that it is a weak Pokemon. But the crazies were familiar with Primeape''s fighting style as they have dealt with them a lot in the wild. The ''blizzard'' struck Golbat hard. It seemed to be a critical hit. Its wings and its lower body were frozen and it dropped to the ground. The opponents were shocked. They didn''t except such a fast attack. But somehow, the after-effects of the ''blizzard'' seemed weak. The surroundings were not that cold as they would expect and they had personally seen Nidorino''s ''blizzard''. "Cloud Nine huh, shit!" said Axel loudly. This unusual phenomenon was due to Gloduck''s ability, ''Cloud Nine''. It suppresses all effects brought by the weather, including move power increase, end of turn damage, accuracy changes and other relevant abilities. Then, 3 things happened at the same time. Pidgeotto used ''Whirlwind'' and Butterfree used ''poison powder'' to Golduck. This was a combination move. The ''poison powder'' got mixed with ''Whirlwind'' and struck Golduck. Golbat was freed from frozen state. How do you ask? Primeape had ruthlessly used ''fire punch'' on Golbat to free it from its state. This action shocked the crazies. How could one be so ruthless? "Now!" shouted Axel. By the time the opponent could realize what had transpired, Golbat was hit with ''horn attack'' from Nidorino. The horn attack was at MAX level. The poor Pokemon was flown by the impact and it fainted on the spot. One down! 2 more to go!! It was good news that Golbat was dealt first. Golbat species are like a poor version of Vampire Noblesse like Cadis Etrama Di Raizel. It could suck your blood to increase its powers, it has supersonic sense and could pinpoint target easily and higher tier Golbat could even manipulate the blood of the target and itself for more firepower (like Raizel from Noblesse) Thank Arceus that the evolution of Golbat had not been discovered yet. If Crobat came to play, then the Zubat species would be one of the top non legendary Pokemon. Defeating Golbat changed the dynamics of the battle. Now it was 2 VS 1. Nidorino and Nidorina VS Primeape Pidgeotto and Butterfree VS Golduck Pidgeotto and Butterfree VS Golduck The combination move had not been missed and it had affected Golduck. It was poisoned and there were multiple bruises on its body. Before it could even recover its standing, a yellow beam hit it on its ?h?st and it was flown by the impact. It crashed into a tree and the tree was almost broken. This move was ''Solar beam'' from Butterfree. When Golduck was dealing with the combination move, Butterfree had already used ''Sunny day''. The move was not affected by Golduck''s ability this time, as it was not in its perfect state. It was busy dealing with another thing. Golduck had bigger fish to fry. ''Solar beam'' was an unusual move for Butterfree as trainers normally train them in psychic and bug type moves. But it was the perfect combination when used with ''sunny day''. When ''sunny day'' was in effect, ''Solar beam'' do not need to be charged and can be used instantly. That was why Golduck could not even register what hit it. But what surprised all of them was its tenacity. It had not fainted and was trying to stand up. "Gol¡­duckkk" it said with difficulty. "That''s enough dude. Come back" said the trainer calling his Pokemon back. He knew that Golduck was down for the count. Now it was 4 VS 1. Axel knew that they had already won. Nidorino and Nidorina VS Primeape Axel had thought that this battle would end fast. He had full confidence in Nidorino. It had to be pointed out that, Nidorino had defeated Nidorina who was a rare ranked Pokemon when it was in uncommon ranked stage. Granted that Nidorina had not taken that battle seriously, ''horn drill'' was a devastating move and it had hit Nidorina in a vital spot. He knew it could not defeat Nidorina if Nidorina was serious but it still counted as something. Now Nidorino was a rare ranked Pokemon and Axel could confidently shout out loud that Nidorino was the strongest Pokemon in this battle. So he had thought that the battle would end soon in their victory. But how every wrong his was. Primeape was dodging the attacks at a very good ratio. It had some bruises but it was ok. When the battle of Golduck ended, Primeape got distracted and Nidorina got a sweet ''horn attack'' on it. Pidgeotto immediately flew down towards Primeape to hit it with ''Aerial ace'' but Primeape shot Pidgeotto with ''thunder punch'' down to the ground. The move was powerful and to add it with Pidgeotto''s speed, it looked like Pidgeotto''s head was plastered in the ground. Pidgeotto was out of the battle. "No!! Pidgeotto!!!" shouted K trying to run towards it. But the teacher stopped him. K called back Pidgeotto and ran towards the nurse who was also watching the battle. This was given, as Pidgeotto was not even an uncommon ranked but Primeape was a rare ranked Pokemon. "Nidorino!! Finish it now, ''horn drill''" shouted Axel. "Blizzard again" shouted A at the same time. ''Blizzard'' was hit which made Primeape partially frozen. It was then followed but a rotating horn that stabbed Primeape in the stomach. Axel could hear a ''puchi!'' sound which confirmed that the horn had pierced the Pokemon''s stomach. Dust flew out and everyone could see Primeape b?r?ly standing, with blood gushing from its stomach. "Wow!" said Axel. He had not expected Primeape to withstand the blow. But what Axel didn''t know was Primeape had used ''Endure'' in the last movement to withstand it. Nidorino was huffing and puffing as ''horn drill'' was a stamina-consuming move. So, Nidorina decided to end it with another ''horn attack''. "Primeape, use ''reversal''" said the trainer. A wanted Nidorino to stop the run when he heard the trainer but Nidorino was already there. Nidorino was critically hit with the move and it fainted on the spot. ''Reversal'' was a powerful move if used strategically, and that was what the opponent did. Reversal deal more damage, when the HP is lower. "Now, rest and Focus energy" said the opponent again. The opponent was a tall guy with no hair and big biceps. This baldy was now irritating Axel. Rest and Focus energy are the moves that could not be used at the same time. But it was different for Primeape. Primeape had an ability called ''Vital Spirit'' which prevents it from falling asleep even when using moves like ''rest'' So now it was recovering without any collateral damage and was increasing its critical hit ratio at the same time. Nidorino was taking its much-needed short rest and Butterfree was far. By the time they got closer, Primeape had already recovered a quarter of its health. "Now for round two!!" shouted baldy with his raised fist. "B, only try to use long range attacks, I will take care of the rest" said Axel. B nodded and instructed Butterfree to use ''Whirlwind''. There was no way that Primeape could dodge the attack. It was heavily injured. Though it had recovered a bit, it could not move hastily due to its open wound in the stomach. "There will be no round two" replied Axel. "B, lets finish this" ''Whirlwind'' hit Primeape and Nidorino used ''Earthquake''. Axel look on his face literally said ''unbelievable'' because Primeape was still not down. They had thought that Primeape would be the easiest one to deal with but they had forgotten that it was a trained Primeape, not a wild one. Butterfree then used ''Solar beam''. It was instant as ''Sunny day'' was still in effect and Nidorino used ''Horn drill'' once again. This was like a chain attack. One after another. Huge dust arose from the impact. Primeape was hit with both of the attacks as it could hardly move. Now, this was a pickle. If Primeape could still withstand it then it would be a problem for the team. Primeape knew moves like ''rest'' so it could heal itself. But Nidorino and Butterfree were all out of stamina. Fortunately, that was not the case. It had fainted but Primeape was seriously injured. It took 1 blizzard, 1 horn attack, 2 horn drills, 1 whirlwind and 1 solar beam. That was a total of 5 stab moves! ''Seriously, how is it still alive?'' thought Axel. Axel didn''t know that Primeape could be such a tank. The battle had concluded and they had finally won. Chapter 89 - Farewell A/N: This is the end of Arc. The next chapters would take some time to be released. Why? Lets do some reality check. At first I wrote this novel just for fun but after some time I started my ''Pat reon'' with it. But it seems like I was not earning much compared to some of my writer friends regardless of the good quality of the my novel compared to them (Their words, not mine). I came to realize that not many people like Pokemon stories compared to Naruto and One piece. I could just write this novel for fun by not thinking of earning anything from it but I know I would not give my 100% in it. I am satisfied by the quality of this novel till now, there are some things to be improved but I am working on it. So I have decided to start a new fanfiction novel! Don''t worry I would not be dropping this one. I would continue it after 3 months. This novel may not be profitable for me but I want to complete it. There are 2 options on it.. And I want you guys to select it. 1. Naruto fanfiction: I have not thought much about the plot of it, but I can promise you that it would be epic. Though there are lots of Naruto fanfiction novels but very few are good as per my opinion. 2. The second would be the combination of Naruto, one piece, fairy tail, noblesse, and many more. This would be an interesting and unique concept. This would involve fights, training, adventure, suspense and romance too. Yes, Romance not harem. Romance would be a good part of this novel. But 1 interesting thing fact about this novel is, I have been thinking about it for 15 years. Yes, 15 years. Since I started to watch anime, I would add some specific event of these anime to my fantasy and the plot was created. Ohh! if you chose this option, you are in for a treat. Since this would be my last chapter for some time, I would request you guys to comment a lot and choose one of the 2 options. The highest vote would win it. Enjoy the Chapter! ------------------------------------------------ "What were you guys thinking?......" Simtha was reprimanding her team for losing the battle. Roman had a smug look on his face. Axel felt bad when he knew that there were not any rewards for the battle. They would just get a graduation degree and Axel didn''t care about it. Pidgeotto seemed out of trouble now but it needed 1 week of rest. Nidorina was not hurt that badly. It had just fainted due to the impact. K now had Pidgeotto and Sandslash. He had decided to evolve them earlier than Axel expected. Axel had repeatedly told K to hold their evolution for some time for better results but K was adamant about it. When the group asked K for the reason, he was quiet. It was quite odd but it was his decision. However, the theory of using the everstones was correct. Pidgeotto and Sandslash were way powerful than their normal counterparts. Axel and Mark were happy about the result. Another new proven theory. Axel shared this research with Mark in spite Mark''s repeated refusal. Axel was not fond of writing research papers and this discovery was not as huge as eeveelutions. Mark was now feeling guilty as if he was hoarding all the rewards. But Axel convinced Mark by saying that this research would not be published in public. It would just be for the Venu family. There was only 1 reason for it. Axel didn''t want to be famous too fast. Too much attention would be harmful to him in many unknown ways and Venu family would reward him massively for it. 8 p.m., Mark''s laboratory, Next day. Axel was leaving tomorrow morning for his new journey. The group had decided to hold an outdoor farewell party near Mark''s laboratory. "Bro, I want you to remember that, where ever you go, this place would always be your home and we would always be your family" said A gulping down the beer. "Yeah, Venu family is not like Toise or Zard family. We take family bonds very seriously" added Adam "So, what are you going to do now? Are you going on some new adventures? Challenging gyms?" asked Mark. "I think it is finally time for me to challenge some gyms" replied Axel. "I would suggest you start with ''Celadon Gym''. It is a grass type gym and your Nidorino and Beedrill could sweep it through. But it is quite far" Adam. "You could try the nearest one, Fuchsia city Gym but fighting the master of poison type at first would not be your best move." Added Mark. "Yeah, but you have a good relationship with Mr. Koga. Maybe he would give a pass on it. From what I have heard, the most powerful gym leader is from Cerulean city Gym followed by Viridian City Gym" said B. The most powerful gym leader was Misty''s father. "I have decided to start with Pewter City Gym" replied Axel "But why?" asked B "I don''t know. I just have this hunch that it would turn out to be good" "Ohh well, if it is your instinct, then it must be something good" Axel was known to have a good instinct among the group. This is off course due to his system. He blamed it all on his instinct. The reason for starting from Pewter City Gym was quite simple and silly. It was the first gym any player would have to battle in the game. Axel just wanted to start with it. Besides he also needed to rank up Shedinja to rare ranked Pokemon before challenging any Gym. "I have decided!!, I would also start my journey from tomorrow" declared K slamming the bottle of beer in the table. "U too? But why? You are still young" asked A. K had never even mentioned this before today so he was surprised. "Axel and I are of the same age. If he can do it then why can''t I?" "But Axel has a rare ranked Pokemon with him. You do not" "Axel didn''t have rare ranked Pokemon when he started his journey" "Mom and dad won''t let you go. How are you going to convince them?" The 3 brothers started to discuss it in length. "K, before anything, I want to say that I travel alone. So if you are thinking of tagging along with me as a companion then think again about your decision" said Axel. Axel didn''t want a travel companion which would be a baggage. He was good friends with the 3 brothers and especially K and treat him as a brother but he would not hinder his plans. "I know about that. Dude, I know you for 3 months, I know your style. I was already thinking of traveling alone" -------- Next day, "Axel, I am sorry that I could not attend your farewell party. You have given me lots of benefits from your research. I know you do not want to be restricted by being a permanent member but Venu family would never think of you as an outsider. Your rewards for this research would be discussed with you over the phone." Said Angela shaking Axel''s hand Angela was super busy now. Ever since word got out that an outsider had become a part of Venu family, many requests from various trainers all over Kanto region came flooding in. Angela and the elders were now very busy handling it. They had not yet set any parameters for selecting the new members but they didn''t want to be like other families. Family bonds for Venu family were a personal thing, so they would only be selecting few members. Everyone said their goodbyes to Axel. The 3 brothers gifted him a book relating to the elemental ranked Pokemon training manual. They had saved a quiet sum for that. Mark gave him a high-rank poison barb for Bulbasaur and Adam gave him 2 master balls. K had talked with his parents and he would be leaving on a journey but just not today. There was a lot of preparation to be made for it so he would be leaving after a week. The group said their last farewell and Axel finally walked out of Venu family grounds after 3 months. For the New Journey!!! Chapter 90 - New Novel Confirmed!! Ok guys, i have finally confirmed with the new novel. The name of it would be ''Raemondo Renn'' This novel would be the mix of fancition of fairy tail and naruto AND some of my own creation. I love system, so there would be a system but it would not decide the novel and would just be for information What I want your opinion on would be the start phase of it. 1. I could just start with the Hero when he was a baby 2. Or I could do that from when he is in young stage with some flash back of his baby stage.. Do comment a lot as i want to know your opinion on whether u guys enjoy the flashback or not -TheSilverPrince Chapter 91 - New Novel Published The first chapter of the new novel has been published. Check it out!!! Name of the Novel: Raemondo Renn Link: # And please Book mark it if u like it for future updates