Chapter 1: Dinner for Tycoons
The pressurized stream of water, aptly named hydro pump headed straight for my Sandslash, of course if this were to hit, it would cause serious damage. I sighed, exasperated at the lack of innovation and creativity that my challengers had. "He uses ground types! My water Pokemon is gonna sweep his team!" I mocked them silently in my head.
"Sandslash, dig." I said lazily; Sandslash jumped into the air slightly before digging into the ground, effectively dodging the attack. This challenger had come from Hoenn, a long ways away from Kanto to challenge me, he had his trusty partner Swampert whom I'm sure had gone through many adventures with. I looked at the challenger waiting to hear his next command and waiting to see if he was just as predictable as the others.
"Swampert, earthquake!" the challenger said with gusto, his eyes lighting up as if he had just found the answer to all of life's mysteries. I sighed once more, of course he would go for earthquake, there's no way I can dodge that… right?
"Sandslash, hyper beam…" I said with a yawn as Sandslash popped up from the ground in front of the Swampert before it could smash its arms into the floor to perform earthquake and let out a point blank condensed beam of energy into the Swamperts face, taking it out and sending it flying into its trainer knocking them both down.
I took a step forward to see if the trainer was ok but after he pulled out a pokeball and recalled his Swampert, he sat up and stared at the ground with a look of defeat.
"That was a good match, you can come and challenge me again any time." I said, to some extent, I wasn't lying, he fought with more vigor than most of my opponents did after i took down five of their pokemon with my one. No, he had fought to the very end and had gained my respect even though it was quite the boring battle on my part. I put a hand out and helped him up and showed him out with a kind smile.
"Jeez, Sandslash… I don't think we'll ever find a challenger that could give us a run for our money but good job out there." I said as I pet my number 1 partner softly before recalling him into his pokeball and connecting it to my necklace. If you're wondering, I have a special necklace that is riddled with beads that looked like pokeballs but six of them were actual pokeballs that carry my main pokemon team, Sandslash being part of it.
I guess I should describe myself, I have light cocoa colored skin, dark golden colored eyes, a chestnut dirty blonde hair color for my mid sized afro, and am around 5'8. I wear a beige colored open neck sweater with brown jeans with beige and brown shoes. I'm also 20 years old. Did I mention that i took up Blue's place as Kanto's eighth gym leader after he went on to become a professor? I specialize in ground types. I'm also the reason why Johto's and Kanto's elite four has drastically gotten less and less challengers from the Kanto side. eh no biggie.
"KIBUDO!" I turned towards the female voice screaming my name, I already knew who it was, I could recognize the voice anywhere. I smiled as a girl with blue hair, teal eyes and freckles ran up and hugged me. She was my ex, Samantha.
"Hey Sam, What's up?" I asked as I hugged her back.
"You didn't get this? She asked as she pulled out a white envelope with the emblem of the most prestigious family in all of Hoenn.
"I haven't checked my mail…" I said before going to another room and coming out with the exact same envelope as Sam. I opened it and read its contents before looking back at Sam.
"Dinner for the world's Tycoons? Do they mean Palmer?"
"I don't think so, They wrote Tycoons, plural meaning more than one and obviously they sent it to more than one person. I think they're putting a dinner for the strongest trainers in the world!" she said excitedly.
"And they sent one to you? Nah, must be something else…" I said teasingly, fully knowing that she could possibly take me down in a pokemon match. She rolled her eyes and pushed me playfully and grinned.
"It's date says in a week so we have to get ready quickly and book our tickets for the ship to Hoenn!" She said with a large smile. I looked at her and sighed.
"Fine, I'll get my stuff ready and book my ticket… see you in two days…" I said with a shrug. She squealed with happiness and hugged me before running out of my gym in a hurry.
"This is gonna be a drag." I said before yawning and going to pack my stuff.