Chapter 12
While going towards the Mikan Island I let Lugia float beside us, she was too young to train but she was an exceptional swimmer and particularly loved the salty water of the ocean. Lugia was growing at an exponential rate, I was sure that in a year she will be as big as Charizard. Once Mikan island came into view I returned Lugia, and when we reached the bank I returned Lapras.
When me and Sirius reached the gym, I found a coconut lying on the way. Sirius was about to pick it up but I stopped him. "You are a marauder padfoot, think like one." Sirius eyed me then looked back at the coconut and saw the thin string attached to it that led up to the tree where there was a bucket full of water waiting for someone unfortunate who pick up the coconut. I smiled and carefully took hold of the string while Sirius took the coconut and we both stepped back while I was holding the string.
Moments later a confused boy came forward from behind the tree and looked for the coconut, I set the string loose and the bucket of water fell on him. "Hey why did you do that?" the boy cried out.
Sirius said with an innocent face, "Do what?"
Just then another older girl came out and said, "Senta are you again playing pranks on people?" Senta sheepishly rubbed the back of his head, "How many times have I told you not to do that, please forgive my brother." She said while looking at us.
"No problem." I replied. "And kid if you want to set traps at least make it more convincing, there is no coconut tree nearby what made you think that someone will go for it." Senta poked out his tongue comically.
"I am actually here to challenge the Mikan gym." I added.
"Oh, then welcome to the Mikan island gym, I am the gym leader Cissy." Cissy introduced herself and we followed her to the inside of the gym.
Once we were inside, Cissy continued "In Orange islands our gym challenges are different, for this challenge you will have complete task faster than me." I nodded in understanding and she continued, "The first task is shooting targets."
Cissy indicated toward a target range where 10 cans were kept at a level. "We will be shooting those cans with water guns, the one finish faster wins."
This was the weirdest gym challenge I have ever heard of but I nodded and released Golduck. Cissy released Horsea for the challenge, both pokemon took their positions, "Start." Cissy shouted. Both Horsea and Golduck fired Water guns hitting the 10 targets at the same time, it was a tie. Cissy said, "Since it's a tie, next challenge will be shooting moving targets."
The target was set again but this time it was moving, "Start." Cissy shouted. Both Horsea and Golduck again hit all the 10 targets at the same time resulting in a tie. "Well looks like it was a tie too, now for the final challenge we will have a race." We all followed Cissy as she took us to the back of the gym which was on the bank of the ocean. She indicated at the red flag some distance away, "We will be racing here, standing on our pokemon back. We will start from here turn around the flag and come back, the first one who comes back win." Cissy said.
I nodded and chose Lapras for the race and Cissy chose Blastoise, Just as Senta shouted start we both raced forward standing on our pokemon backs. Both me and Cissy were neck to neck but Cissy was quick at the turn around the flag as I nearly fell off from Lapras back but Lapras caught me but Cissy got ahead of me. "Lapras use Ice Beam and freeze the water." I said to Lapras. Lapras froze the water on the top making an ice track to the end line, Lapras was much faster in ice than in water and I easily left Cissy behind and won the race.
When reached Cissy reached the bank she gave me a Badge, "This is the Coral Eye Badge, proof of winning the Mikan island gym challenge." I nodded and left the gym with Sirius.
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After defeating Cissy and getting my first orange league badge, we headed for Navel island on Lapras back. It was nearly evening so we decided to make a stop for the night on Sunburst island, the island was famous for making beautiful glass sculptures of people and pokemons alike. There was also a rumour of a crystal Onix staying in a cave on this island which inspired the first glass sculpture of this island, but no one could confirm it.
The next day we again travelled to Navel island, it was a long journey and we had to make a stop on Pinkan island for the night, which was a pokemon reserve consisting of pink pokemons. All pokemons on this island ate a pink fruit that grew only on this island that turned the skin of pokemon pink.
The next after another long journey we finally reached Navel island, when we approached the gym gate there was a board with instructions, it declared that challengers must climb up the mountain without using Pokémon or risk disqualification, while spectators can use the cable car. Sirius grinned and took the cable car, the mountain wasn't that long or steep so it took me an hour to climb up the mountain, when I reached the top and sat down to take a breather I found Sirius with another person drinking hot tea.
The man introduced himself, "Hey, I am Danny the Navel Island gym leader. In this gym challenge we will have three contest the one who win two out of the three will win the match." I nodded, "The first challenge is freezing the water of a geyser into an Ice Slab, the next challenge is to carve the Ice Slab into a sled which can carry you and three other pokemon, and the last challenge is a race down the mountain to the beach by sliding down using the Sled you make."
I nodded, this challenge was much more exciting and unique than the Mikan island gym challenge. I chose Blastoise and Danny used his Nidoqueen. We stood in front of the geyser, the water came out at the same time and both Nidoqueen and Blastoise froze the water into an ice slab with a powerful Ice Beam, this round was a draw. In the next round I called out Hedwig and Golduck to help Blastoise in making a Sled, it too both Danny and me 15 minutes to create the Sled, this round was again draw.
Danny sat on his sled and put Geodude, Electrode and Scyther in his Sled, I chose Luxio, Golduck and Scizor to join me and the race began. Danny used his Scyher to steer his Sled and my Scizor did the same but Golduck kept the Sled steady and move it away from any obstacle ahead with his psychic powers. Both Danny and I were side by side but when the field changed from snow to rock and land Danny had to manoeuvre out of the way due to a big rock and e was left behind as I won the race.
When Danny came down he gave me the gym badge, "This is the Sea Ruby Badge, your proof of victory in the Navel island gym."
I took the badge, "Thanks Danny, that was a lot of fun."
After leaving Navel island we were passing through the Seven Grapefruit islands, it was a group of seven small island famous for harvesting Grapefruit. Sirius noticed a large number of people running behind a figure which looked like a big pokemon, I told Lapras to head towards it. When I reached there I found the owner of the island Ruby busy in harvesting as many foots as possible. "There is a hungry Snorlax coming this way, it has already cleared the first island dry we need to harvest as many grapefruits as we can." She told me when I asked why she was in a hurry?
Snorlax was a powerful pokemon but it liked to mostly eat and sleep, I knew if I trained it properly it could be a devastating powerhouse. So with the goal of catching a Snorlax I headed toward the direction where Snorlax was eating happily, I didn't have Charizard or Dragonite with me so I decided to talk to it.
"Hey Snorlax, look here." Snorlax stooped eating and looked at me, "You like to eat right?" Snorlax nodded "I can give you as much food you want if you join my team, you won't have to search for more food. So, what do you say? Will you join me?" Snorlax took his time while eating the grapefruit in his hand and then nodded. I grinned and threw a pokeball at it, he was captured without any resistance and then I scanned it with my pokedex.
"Snorlax, the Sleeping Pokémon. Snorlax isn't satisfied unless it eats at least 900 pounds of food per day. Once it is full, it promptly goes to sleep. Snorlax becomes much too lazy to lift even a finger when it has a full belly, which then makes it safe to bounce upon. Small children sometimes play on its belly. This Snorlax is a male.
Ability- Immunity, Thick Fat
Known Moves- Defence Curl, Lick, Chip Away, Yawn, Body Slam, Rest, Snore, Sleep Talk, Giga Impact, Belly Drum, Crunch, Ice Beam, Thunder, Earthquake, Shadow Ball, Hyper Beam, Psychic, Belch, Counter, Fissure, Ice Punch, Thunder Punch."
Sirius looked at my grinning form and asked, "What happened?"
I replied, "Snorlax knowns quite a number of powerful moves, that means like every Snorlax it likes eating and sleeping it also likes to train and fight."
"That's well and good but how will you satisfy his hunger?" Sirius asked.
"Don't worry Padfoot, Prof Oak has created a new type of pokemon food that has much more calories and is suitable for heavy eating pokemon like Snorlax. One bowl of that food and Snorlax will be full, I have many packets of it in New Island." I replied.
Ruby thanked us for stopping Snorlax and gave us a crate of grapefruit for free, I called the zombie nurse Joy in new Island and transferred the pokeball of Snorlax to her and brought back Dragonite.
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After catching Snorlax I started to spend a little less time on travelling and some more time on training, just as I expected Snorlax was quite eager to fight and the versatility of his move set with his natural strength were scary for any challenger. Luxio and Lugia loved to bounce and play on Snorlax belly and he didn't mind it at all. Lapras was young too so I mainly worked on her defence and strength of her attacks. I also started to train Lugia a bit mainly how to fly with Hedwig's help. Lugia loved to swim underwater but he wasn't able to fly in the air properly, I was trying to strengthen his wings as Lugia's wings strength were things of legends, able to topple a building with one flap.
When we were in Moro Island Sirius met and befriended a Haunter who shared Sirius love for pranking, the two shared a comical goodbye when we left Moro island. In Mandarin Island while I was training Lapras and Luxio I met the ice type specialist of Kanto elite four, Lorelei also known as Prima. She gave me some good tips on training Lapras but it was cut short as Sirius came back, I didn't know how he did it but Sirius was able to convince the ice queen to go on a date with him. Sometimes Sirius made me wish that I should be an adult too.
It took me one more week to reach Trovita Island, when I reached the gym I met the gym leader Rudy who was the same age as me. "In this gym, you won't be going through any challenges, it will be two on two pokemon battle." I nodded and Rudy introduced Mahri, Rudy's sister who acted as Referee.
The gym battle wasn't much challenge, most of the people who take on Orange league were mostly tourist so Rudy didn't get many good trainers to battle. I used Luxio against Rudy's Electabuzz, Luxio didn't have much trouble in defeating Electabuzz. Rudy's next pokemon was Exeggutor, Luxio was at disadvantage but in the end, she evolved into Luxray and won the battle with a powerful Fire fang. With that I won the Spike Shell Badge, my third Orange league badge.
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It took me two more weeks to reach Kumquat island, the gym leader was a restaurant owner named Luana, she told me that for getting a badge from her I would have to defeat her in a double battle and I accepted. I used Umbreon and Hedwig against Luana's Alakazam and Marowak, Hedwig and Umbreon were my most experienced pokemon beside Charizard they didn't have much problem in defeating the duo of Marowak and Alakazam. I won my last and final Orange league badge, the Jade Star Badge.
It was finally time to challenge Drake in Pummelo Island, when we reached Pummelo Island I asked the nurse Joy about battling Drake for the Indigo league trophy. "If you have all the four badges you can head over to the stadium and show your badges and will be able to fight the Orange League Champion Drake for the Orange League Trophy." Nurse Joy told me.
I nodded and left Sirius in the pokemon centre and headed to the big stadium in the middle of the city. When I reached there, I found the stadium filled with many statues of Dragonite. I walked toward the receptionist, "Hello, I am here to have a fight with Drake."
The receptionist looked at me in excitation, "Do you have all the four badges?"
I nodded and showed him my badges, he took my pokedex and after registering me he replied, "Your battle is scheduled for tomorrow morning." I nodded and left. Surprisingly as the day continued the whole city got the news of the battle, there were poster everywhere for the upcoming match. After looking at the craze for pokemon battle Sirius asked, "Hey pup, can I become a trainer."
I shook my head in denial, "Nah Sirius, you can get the trainer license in between the age of 13 to 20, you are too old to become one. But why the sudden interest?"
"I was thinking about what to do in this life? I can't just accompany you on your journey always, I need to do something." Sirius replied.
I looked at Sirius and for the first time I saw him with a serious attitude, "I can't help you there Sirius, only you know what you would like to do." I said to him.
Sirius nodded, "Hey I wanted to ask but I always forgot, how did your small bag can keep all those things. At first I thought that you enchanted it but then I saw other trainers doing the same."
"Technological advancement Sirius, some of the things we did with magic is now possible with technology." Then an idea stuck me, "Hey Sirius, how good are your in Runes and Enchanting?"
Sirius huffed, "Good, please don't insult me pup I was a prodigy in Runes, and I have done my fair share of Enchanting. You know I was the one who enchanted the Marauder's map, you were a prodigy in magic because you were born in the midst of prodigies except that traitor Pettigrew. Your father was the best in Transfiguration that even Albus Dumbledore respected, your mother as you know was the expert in Potions and Charm. Remus was the best in Defensive and Offensive magic and the Runes department was under my hand. Your godmother Alice was a prodigy in Herbology and I heard her son Neville was the same, unfortunately there was no one who could listen to Binn's babbling so no History."
I smiled, "Ok, what I am trying to say is what if you open up a small company that uses some magical applications but it won't be obvious and we will call it new technology. Like my bag can only handle so much but if I work on it I can make a bag by using some Runes and Enchanting that can hold the whole pokemon centre inside it."
Sirius eyes lit up, "I like your idea, I can open up a shop like the Weasley Wizarding Wheezes and sell my inventions that would have magic but everyone will thing it's advance technology."
I nodded, "Yes, and for your information the WWW was much more famous, Fred and George opened their branch all over the magical world. I still remember the look on Draco Malfoy face when the news came out that Fred and George's are three times richer than the whole worth of Malfoy family. Draco had to sell his family manor due to some contract issues with Gringotts and the Weasley twins bought the manor with the highest bidding in front of Draco."
Sirius smiled but then sadly asked, "What about my cousin, Narcissa?"
"She didn't live for long, Lucius had once used her as a shield from the curse that Tommy boy used on Lucius when he was angry, the curse was for Lucius but Lucius bought his wife in between. They were able to cure her at that time but the curse slowly killed her from inside and she died a year after the war." I replied.
Sirius nodded, "She was never into the pureblood vendetta but the bitch who gave birth to me sold her to Lucius in the service of dark lord and she had no choice but to do as she was told. Well enough of that, I think I'll start working on my inventions."
I added, "We can also make some potions, I have seen some of the plants required for common medical potions in this world and you can experiment a bit too. If you can manage to make such potions I am sure they will be on high demand."
Sirius looked at me, "Why's that? The medical technology is so advanced that they can heal a pokemon so quickly in any pokemon centre."
I smiled, "Exactly, you have to bring your pokemon to the pokemon centre but what if the pokemon centre is too far away and your pokemon is badly injured, it is one of the main problems trainers face these days. With all the technological advancement it still isn't possible to heal broken bones quickly, many pokemon have to stop battling because their bones were broken and after healing they had a risk of breaking it again if they battle again."
Sirius nodded, "Well I think I'll work on those while you travel through Jhoto." I nodded and headed to my room to rest.
The next day when I reached the stadium I found it fully packed, it looked like the whole city was there to watch the battle. Sirius was unable to get a seat until I said to the officials that he was my godfather. I walked into the battlefield and Drake entered from the opposite side in the midst of loud cheers. "Good morning everyone, today we have a new challenger to battle against our own champion Drake for the Orange League trophy. Drake's challenger is the youngest runner up of Indigo League, lets welcome Harry Potter. Can the challenger break Drake's winning streak of 7 wins or is Drake going to continue his winning streak, let's find out?" The announcer shouted.
"Give me your best Harry." Drake said to me.
"Don't worry, your winning streak is going to end today."
The Referee took his position and started, "This battle will be a full six on six pokemon battle. When any one trainer loses three of his pokemon we will have a short 15 minutes break. Trainers release your pokemon and let the battle begin."
"Luxray you are up." I released my first pokemon.
Drake nodded, "Ditto come out and Transform."
Now that was interesting, Ditto came out and transformed into a Luxray. Luxray snarled and charged forward with Iron Tail, Ditto also did the same. This happened back and forth Luxray would use one of its attack and Ditto would counter with same attack.
"Keep calm girl, just stay there and wait." I said.
"As you wish, Ditto use Iron Tail." Drake commanded.
Just as Ditto came near Luxray I shouted, "Get out of the way and use Crunch and follow it up with Throat Chop."
Luxray sidestepped Ditto's Iron Tail, narrowly dodging it and the bit down Ditto with Crunch and then hit Ditto with a Throat Chop. Ditto transformed back from Luxray to its original form and fell down unconscious.
"Ditto is unable to battle." Referee shouted.
Drake recalled Ditto and released his next pokemon, "Come out Electabuzz."
Electabuzz started the battle by hitting Luxray with Fire Punch but Luxray retaliated with Ice Fang. Both Luxray and Electrabuzz broke up and used Thunder, the Thunder attack from both Electabuzz and Luxray were equally powerful and they met with an explosion. Electabuzz hit Luxray with a Hammer Arm.
I knew Luxray was nearly exhausted, "Give it your all Luxray, use Hyper Beam."
Luxray gathered all his strength left and used Hyper Beam, Electabuzz didn't get any time to dodge as the Hyper Beam hit it knocking it out. Luxray also fell down unconscious due to exhaustion.
"Both Electabuzz and Luxray are unable to battle." Referee announced.
Drake recalled Electabuzz and sent out his next pokemon, "Come out Venusaur."
I recalled Luxray, "Snorlax, come out." Snorlax came out and he was still snoring.
Drake looked at me funnily, "Are you sure Harry? I don't think your Snorlax is going to fight while asleep."
I grinned, "We will see Drake."
Drake replied, "As you wish, Venusaur use Leaf Storm."
"Sleep Talk Snorlax." I commanded.
Snorlax cut through the Leaf Storm and then hit Venusaur with Zen Headbutt, the leaves forced Snorlax to wake up from his sleep. Venusaur quickly recovered and hit Snorlax with Petal Dance and then followed it up with a Leech Seed. Snorlax was covered in plant which started soaking its energy but he wasn't going down that easy, he got up and hit Venusaur with a devastating Fire Blast.
Venusaur tried to restrict Snorlax with his whip but Snorlax didn't let that happen and shook the ground with Earthquake. Venusaur gathered its energy and used a Solar Beam and Snorlax replied it with his own Hyper Beam, the two powerful attack collided and created a big explosion.
"Snorlax use Giga Impact." I shouted.
"You too Venusaur." Drake shouted back, "Use Giga Impact."
The two pokemon collided with their respective Giga Impact crating a big shockwave, as the smoke cleared both pokemon were found lying down unconscious on the ground.
"Both Venusaur and Snorlax are unable to battle, since Drake had lost three of his pokemon we will have a short break." Referee declared.
After a short break I was back in the battlefield, the battlefield was changed to rock type with a small pond in it. Referee shouted, "Let the battle begin."
Drake released his pokemon first, "Onix you are up."
I released my pokemon on the small pond, "Lapras you are up." Lapras was young but she wanted to battle in this match.
Onix started the battle with Dragon Breath but Lapras countered it with Ice Beam and then used Water Gun on Onix. Onix was able to dodge the Water Gun by going Underground and then he came back up and used Stone Edge. The Stone Edge hit Lapras but Lapras gritted her teeth and used a Hydro Pump at Onix, Onix was completely taken by surprise with the Hydro Pump and didn't get any time to dodge. The Hydro Pump was able to knock out Onix.
"Onix is unable to battle." Referee declared.
Drake returned Onix, "Gengar you are up."
Gengar didn't gave Lapras any chance and used a powerful Thunder which knocked out Lapras.
"Lapras is unable to battle." Referee declared.
I recalled Lapras, "Umbreon come out."
Gengar tried using an Ice Punch on Umbreon but Umbreon quickly dodged it and used Shadow Ball which hit Gengar. Gengar quickly replied with a wave of Sludge Bomb, Umbreon dodged all of them but was hit with the last one. Gengar tried the poisoned state of Umbreon to its advantage and was about to hit Umbreon with Brick Break but Umbreon quickly composed herself and used Double Team to dodge the Brick Break. Umbreon and her copies surrounded Gengar and hit it with Dark Pulse.
"Umbreon let's finish it with Throat Chop." I shouted.
"Gengar use Destiny Bond." Drake shouted back.
Umbreon hit Gengar with Throat Chop knocking it out but Gengar was successful in using Destiny Bond and took down Umbreon with it.
"Both Gengar and Umbreon are unable to battle." Referee declared.
Drake recalled Gengar as I recalled Umbreon, "Harry it's time for you to face my first pokemon and my best friend, Go Dragonite."
I smiled, "Then you should battle my first pokemon and my first friend, go Hedwig."
The moment Hedwig came out Drake knew he was screwed, Dragonite didn't know many other type attacks except Thunder and Extreme Speed. Dragonite hit Hedwig with Thunder a couple of time but Hedwig's fairy type attacks were too much for Dragonite, Hedwig finished the battle with Moonblast and insured my victory.
I won a prize money of 10,000 Poke Credits and a trophy for winning the Orange league, I also got inducted in the Orange League Hall Of Fame.
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AN: - I won't be doing the Lugia movie as it mainly focused on Ash being the chosen one, Harry won't become a chosen one again.
Harry's pokemon list (M – Male, F – Female, S – Shiny)
Hedwig (Togekiss) F, Umbreon S F, Charizard S M, Golduck M, Nidoking M, Blastoise M, Dragonite F, Luxray F, Misdreavus F, Tauros M, Scizor M, Rhydon F, Aerodactyl M.
Lugia M, Lapras F, Snorlax M.
Sirius pokemon list
Growlithe S M.
