After the battle with the youngster, I went on to challenge everyone on Route 202 with Pokémon.

"Damn, that was oddly satisfying," I said as I entered Jubilife City.

Jubilife is a big city. The other day, I only went to the library. I had never actually walked around, so walking through the city streets was new to me, considering that I'd never really been out of Twinleaf Town that much. I walked around for a bit, checking out tall buildings and other cool things, like the Pokétch Company and the Jubilife Radio Station. After walking through Jubilife City, I found a small schoolhouse-like building. The sign said, "Trainer's School".

"Cool, a trainer school. Now I can learn all there is to know about Pokémon training," I said, walking into the building.

As I walked into the building, I noticed a big blackboard, with a yellow haired trainer standing there, studying the board carefully. At the table in the middle of the room, there were two young trainers seated at it, a lass and a youngster, who were writing things from the board. I peeked at the book that the youngster was writing in.

"Pokémon are to be caught using Pokéballs. Up to six Pokémon can accompany a trainer," said the book. Psh, I thought. That's some stupid bullshit. Who came up with that rule? I read on: "A trainer is someone who catches Pokémon, raises them, and battles with them. A Trainer's mission is to defeat the strong trainers who await challengers in Pokémon Gyms." Gyms, huh? Never been to one, so it sounds interesting, I thought, thinking about what a gym battle would be like.

I walked over to a youngster who was surfing the web, looking for information on Pokémon training.

"Hello."

"Hi," said the youngster.

"I'm interested to know, what is this that you're looking at? I need to know about Pokémon training, so I'm rather curious to know," I said, gesturing to the screen.

"Oh! Well, I'm doing research on Pokémon types, to further expand my knowledge on what we learned today, which is Pokémon types. Umm…" he trailed off, probably trying to remember what he learned. "Grass types are weak to Fire types, Fire to Water, and Water to Grass. Yeah, I think that's how it goes. I mean, I should remember, because the teacher just spent the last hour and a half drilling it into out skulls."

I chuckled. "Yeah, well, you're gonna need the information, so I guess that was a good thing."

"Yeah, but that was just for Fire, Water and Grass types. It turns out," he said, pointing to the screen, "that this does not only apply to the three basic types. This also applies to Steel, Rock, Bug, Psychic, and even Ghost types." He pulled up a chart to show every Pokémon type and their weaknesses. I found out that Steel types are weak to Fire and Water types, and Ghost types are unaffected by Normal and Fighting Types.

"Thanks for the help, kid," I said.

"No problem!" he replied.

There were two trainers there, both Schoolkids. The boy on the left with the glasses had strong Pokémon, and put up a good fight. The girl on the right also had moderately strong Pokémon as well, and also put up a good fight. The boy gave me TM10 Hidden Power. Feeling its power in the battle I'd just had, I considered it pretty much useless, but I kept it anyway.

Suddenly, a woman came rushing in and jogged over to the yellow haired trainer who was standing by the blackboard. She spoke to him very quickly, gave him a little blue case and left in a hurry. In curiosity, I walked over to the blackboard where the yellow haired trainer was standing, looking down at the blue case.
"What was that all about?" I asked curiously.

"Gah-oh, hello," said the yellow haired trainer, dropping one of the cases he was holding. "Uh, that was my mother. She ran all the way from Twinleaf Town to here just to give me this Town Map, or actually, two of them. I only needed one… here, you want this?" he said, giving me the other Town Map.

"Thanks. Oh, uh, did you say that you were from Twinleaf Town? I'm from there too, and I haven't seen you around. Are you new to Sinnoh?" I asked.

"Yes I am. My name is Barry. Nice to meet you," he said, holding out his hand. We shook hands. "Hey, uh, I'm also a new trainer. Do you think that could be my rival and friend?" he asked. He was a pretty nice guy, and I did need to become stronger, so I figured, why not?

"Yeah. We could become really strong that way," I said. "Oh, also, thanks for the map."

"No problem. I didn't need two, and I was considering tossing it anyway," he replied. "Okay, so, I should be taking on the gym in Oreburgh City next, so, I'll see you around, or maybe in Oreburgh, depending on where you go. But coming from me, I think that you should take on the gym leader in Oreburgh. See ya later, um, I didn't catch your name."

"Vincent. Or you can call me Vinny, whatever you like."

"Okay, see you later, Vinny! Bye!" called Barry as he darted out the door. Since he was going to Oreburgh to take on the gym, I guess I could follow him to learn a little bit about Gyms.

I exited the Trainer's School and walked around for a bit. I started noticing these weird clown dudes, so I decided to talk to all three of them to see what was going on. I had to answer their trivia questions about Pokémon, which I learned a bit from. As a reward, I got a very convenient Pokétch, or Pokémon Watch for short. I decided to go to the Pokémon Center to heal up (Nurse Joy didn't even seem the slightest bit startled that I was half-Charizard, she treated it as if it was normal) and then I headed out to Route 203.