Journal of a Unova Pokemon Trainer

Chapter One

My najme is Quinn. I am on a journey through the Unova region, to catch and train Pokemon. I was supposed to keep this journal from the very beginning, or Professor Juniper so advised. However, I neglected it till now. I have just earned the Icicle Badge from Brycen in Icirrus Town a couple of days ago.

I have just gone up Dragonspiral Tower last night and defeated some members of an organization styling itself Team Plasma. Their leader, N, was at the top and he summoned the forces of a giant black dragon. It was alarming! He then rode off on it after telling me I should search for the stone or whatever that will help me summon the yin to the black dragon's yang.

Team Plasma is an organization that believes it is evil to confine Pokemon in Pokeballs and enslave them. They plan to convince people to free their beloved Pokemon.

I wanted to join Team Plasma for a moment or two, but my friend Cheren told me that while seemingly noble on the surface, he found legitimate photos in Unova Geographic which showed Team Plasma members bleeding a bunch of Trubbish with genetically enhanced Tynamo, a Pokemon that resembles an amoeba and which scientists who worked for Team Plasma made like leeches. So I must stop them. And N told me exactly what to do to stop him. (While we are on the subject, what kind of name is N? N is a letter, not a name.)

Brycen says that by using the power of the black dragon, N will be able to tell people what to do with their Pokemon. People will listen to N, free their Pokemon, and anyone who challenges N will be made to look ridiculous. Okay, no, that's merely a polite way of putting it. Let me tell you exactly the picture Brycen painted in my mind.

Let us assume that N will succeed. (Arceus, I hope not.) Anyway, everyone frees their Pokemon. But one trainer is willing to stand against him and refuses to let his Pokemon go. He will be dragged before N, then forced to quaff a mudshake, made from mud that Palpitoad had defecated in. Then he will be given two options. One, have his tongue cut out and his hands cut off, or two: live in solitary confinement in a prison. If he chooses the latter, people will complain about having to pay taxes to keep a "criminal" confined, and no one will dare resist N again.

Now, this is all speculation, but I know that N will want to remain in control, and that is pretty much the only way to do it. (Okay, the mudshake isn't necessary but Team Plasma probably has worse ideas than that. I'd have to say though that if they did do that, I'd sue them for copyright infringement. )

Years will pass under N's rule, and people will forget about Pokemon, since Pokemon will live in their own part of the world and people in theirs. Sounds like a dull place to live, eh?

So you can see what I must do. I need to find Relic Castle, where I should find the Light Ball which will summon the Pokemon that will be able to challenge the black dragon N summoned.

Right now I am in Icirrus' Moor. I am training a Druddigon I caught in Dragonspiral Tower. Rumor has it that the eighth Gym Leader uses dragons, and the only thing weak against Dragon is Dragon. I am only using Pokemon with a type weak against the type the Gym Leaders I face use. I will tell you what Pokemon I used against whom later. All you need to know for now, dear journal, is that I am facing the last gym with only one Pokemon, if it is in fact true that dragons are the specialty there. (I was thinking of using six of the same dragon Pokemon, but I think its cooler to use only one, and besides, dividing up the training would not work well, I reckon.)

Dragons do seem to be important to this region, don't they? They are some of the most mysterious types. I often wonder why there is no Pokemon type weak against Dragon except Dragon itself. Poison is also a type that is only strong against one other. However, there are a few undiscovered regions, and perhaps in one of them there is a Pokemon type that is weak against Dragon and Poison. (Regions are considered "undiscovered" until someone from Kanto or Johto finds it. Kanto and Johto are far from here but Unova wasn't on any of the world maps until twenty-some years ago, when a sailor named Sinbad landed here.)

I think there should also be a type strong against Electric other than Ground. So, in my imagination I thought of a new type called Pixie. This Pokemon would have resistance to Electric moves, its own moves would be super-effective against Electric and Normal Pokemon, and it would take double the damage from Dragon and Poison type moves. The problem is that some Pokemon, such as the Kanto one known as Clefairy, would have to be re-typed. Clefairy would be Normal/Pixie. But again, this is just something I thought up. It would be cool if it actually happened, though. What I like about my idea is that it would even out all the types. Every type should be strong against two types (except Normal, which shouldn't be strong against anything) and weak against two types, and this takes care of that.

Went to Relic Castle and couldn't figure out what to do. Inside, it was just a little tiny place with some stairs blocked by a ledge I couldn't cross. I went all around the outside and there was no back entrance. So I flew to Mistralton City on my Tranquill, invaded the gym again even though I have already won the badge there, flew through I don't know how many cannons. I have just now asked Skyla if I could sleep at her feet. I told her it will help me wake up with a clear mind for figuring this out. That's not the real reason, but she said fine.

I really hope to figure out Relic Castle sometime tomorrow.