Chapter 21 Aftermath
When Damian and Oddish left the gym, they both saw Gastly and Nikki still standing in the same spot as before. When the girl and the pokemon saw their companions, they immediately ran to them. "So, how did it go?", she asked curiously. Damian smirked and then took out his new Zephyr Badge.
"What do you say? Me and my team fought hard and in the end we won the battle! We did well, didn't we Oddish?", he replied happily and then looked at the grass type pokemon, who nodded proudly. That made Nikki even more intrigued.
"But how did you beat him? I mean Gastly and I defeated him easily, but I can't remember you telling me of some sort of strategy. So how did you beat him?" Once again, the boy smiled and explained how Oddish managed to take out Pidgeot all by itself. When he was finished, both Nikki and Gastly stared at him perplexed and surprised.
"A-are you joking?!", she exclaimed astonished. "You slammed him on the platform?! With Leech Seed? How the heck is that possible?!" The boy rubbed his neck, slightly embarrassed.
"Yeah, I only came up with it on the spot, but it still worked.", Damian replied chuckling. Nikki only groaned in disbelief, but then her face shifted into confusion.
"Say, where's your pokemon Shuppet? Didn't you take it into the gym?" Damian immediately stopped smiling and looked on the ground sad.
"Pidgeot took out Shuppet, without even landing a single hit." He took out his pokeball and frowned upon seeing it. Nikki eyed at him with slight pity, before smiling slightly.
"Don't think about that now. Let's go to the Pokemon Center and heal up your pokemon.", she replied and then she and Gastly made their way towards the Center, with Damian and Oddish following them.
Pokemon Center
"Ok, we'll take your pokemon for a few seconds ok?", asked Nurse Joy politely as she took both of Odish's and Shuppet's pokeballs out of Damian's hand. "This may take a while. Just wait till I'm done ok?" And with that, the nurse turned back and entered a door behind the counter. While he was waiting for his pokemon to get fixed up, Damian then turned to Nikki, who sat on a bench next to Gastly.
"We both have the first badge now, so where is our next step?", he asked the girl. The ladder put her finger on the chin and started to think.
"Well, the nearest city would normally be Azalea Town, but there isn't a gym there anymore." That surprised Damian. The gym leader of Azalea Bugsy, was known to be one of the most skilled bug type trainers in the world and as the inventor of the attack Fury Cutter. But why was the gym gone? The last time Damian looked 4 months ago on the official Johto Gym website, it said that Bugsy was still the leader of the Azalea City Gym. And now the gym is gone? That is a bit strange.
"And which gym will we take on instead then?", he asked and Nikki only groaned and pointed at a big map that was attached to a wall.
"Just look at the map and see which city is next to Viola City! God, why are you so dumb?" Damian only rolled his eyes in response, but then he went to the wall and took a closer look at the map. As he scanned it, Damian saw another town labelled next to it called "Goldenrod City". That must be the next stop!
"So Goldenrod City is our next spot then?", he asked just to be sure. Nikki nodded slightly.
"Yeah exactly. To be honest, I'm kinda excited to go there." All of a sudden, her face morphed into an exciting form and her eyes began to sparkle.
"Goldenrod City is super cool! I mean it has that one big mall and the river there is also very beautiful! I can't wait to go shopping there and buy myself a new hoodie! Man, I'm so pumped!" Damian wanted to reply something, but then he heard Nurse joy calling him. He quickly went to the counter and saw a tablet with two pokeballs being on it.
"You pokemon had been healed to perfect health.", she said smiling. "We hope to see you again." Damian only smiled in response and then took his pokeballs. The boy released both of his pokemon and in a matter of seconds both of them stood (or rather levitated in Shuppet's case) in front of him. The grass type pokemon stretched itself and then smiled happily.
"*Yawn* I'm feeling so much better now! That one battle really took a lot out of me, let me tell ya!", she exclaimed with content. Damian chuckled slightly.
"Yeah, that battle sure took a lot out of you. But in the end, it all worked out." The trainer turned himself towards Shuppet. "How about you Shuppet? Did you rest well?"
The ghost type pokemon didn't answer. It just glared at their trainer. Confused, Oddish looked at them.
"Ghostie, what's wrong?", she asked. The ghost type pokemon didn't answer. Instead they levitated to their pokeball, pressed the button and then entered it. Damian looked confused to Oddish. The ladder only shrugged slightly and then smiled again.
"Don't worry Damian! I'm pretty sure that Ghostie is just tired! I'm pretty sure that some resting will help!" The boy hesitated slightly and then nodded. Oddish must be right. Shuppet is just tired. Yeah, that has to be it. With that in mind, the boy went to Nikki and her Gastly, who both eyed the boy curiously.
"What's wrong buddy?", asked Gastly with a smirk. "Got tension with that excuse of a pokemon?" Damian barely managed to snap back at the ghost pokemon. Instead he just ignored it and looked to Nikki, who gave the boy a strange look.
"Why did you just glare at my pokemon Damian?", she asked confused. The pokemon trainer let out a short sigh and shook his head.
"I didn't. Look, can we just get our things already? I don't want to wait any longer."
"Sure. But you don't have to be so rude about it.", she replied, slightly annoyed and then made her way towards their room, followed by a smirking Gastly and Damian along with Oddish. The grass type glanced concerned at the pokeball of Shuppet. What was going on with the puppet pokemon?
It didn't take long for the group to take all their stuff from the rest room and minutes later, the trainers and their pokemon were now wandering through the streets of Violet City. Between the whole group was a strange atmosphere. No one attempted to speak for whatever reason. Even Gastly didn't make a single sound. It was really awkward. Damian was deep in his thoughts and stared at Shuppet's pokeball.
"Was Shuppet really that mad, that it lost?", the trainer thought to himself. "I mean, I get why he'd be upset but isn't he exaggerating a bit? He did defeat Pidgeotto after all and..."
But before Damian could continue his thoughts, he suddenly bumped into Nikki.
"Ouch! What the heck Nikki?", the boy exclaimed angrily, while Oddish just looked confused. However, Nikki did not answer. Before Damian could ask again, a voice beat him to the punch.
"I was wondering where you went my dear."
Those words came from a man. He was dressed in a grey suit, along with a white cravat. His head was completely bald, save for some small amount of white hair and the man himself looked like he was in his early 60s. He approached Nikki, who seemed to be completely surprised by his appearance. Even Gastly seemed rather confused at the sight of this person.
"Castor, what brings you here?"Nikki asked confused. The man smiled slightly.
"I think that is obvious my dear. Your father sent me. He said that he'd need to see you.", the man replied. The girl shook her head frustrated.
"I already told you on the train, that I want to keep traveling! I only have one badge at the moment and I want to travel with this boy.", she pouted angrily.
That last part surprised Damian. Nikki wanted to continue to travel with him? But why?
"It will not take much long, your father said so.", the strange man named Castor answered casually. He then turned to Damian.
"Why don't you go to the next gym town? Nikki will catch up on you, I can assure you." He then looked back to Nikki.
"Now then, shall we go? We wouldn't want to keep your father waiting now, would we?" He turned around and stated to leave
Nikki nodded slowly and then faced Damian.
"Sorry man. I'll catch up on you. Just get the next badge."
She then followed the man, along with her Gastly, leaving a confused Damian and Oddish behind. The trainer looked at his grass pokemon confused.
"So umm, what was that just now?"Oddish asked confused. Damian shrugged his shoulders.
"Not really sure. Nikki seemed to know that guy though and she did go with him. Never saw her giving up an argument this quickly."
"Well, her dad wanted to see Nikki so no wonder, that she just gave up. Guess that Nikki can't really argue against daddy. ", the poison pokemon giggled. With a sigh, Damian turned around.
He was curious as to why the girl went away with this man named Castor. Nikki did tell him that she wanted to travel with Damian and that she told him that already on the train. Was that the reason why Nikki seemed slightly annoyed on the train? Because she argued with Castor?
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It is of no importance
"I don't care , why Nikki just left! She'll catch onto us! Right now we need to go to Goldenrod City!", he exclaimed harshly with a glare to his pokemon, which made Oddish jump.
"Hey Damie, why are you so mad and scary all of a sudden?", the poison type asked. Surprised, Damian blinked for a few seconds and then shook his head.
"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you. I guess I'm just a bit tired.", he replied and gave a fake yawn. "Anyways, we should get going. I think going past the Alph Ruins would be a good start. Let's go."
He started to walk away, while Oddish hesitated at first, but then followed the trainer with a rather sceptical look on their face.
If the two would have turned around, they may have noticed three team rocket grunts along with their Mightyena.
AN: Sorry if that update took longer, than it should have been. I was quite busy and didn't always have the time. Anyways, before 'll wrap this up, let's read that one new review:
Plutodragon chapter 20 . Jul 28
Hi there. I'm just wondering if Oddish will become Bellossom. She better
AN: Well, I don't really want to give any spoilers. If you want to find that out, just continue to read the story! Or don't, your decision really.
Anyways, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter! Stay tuned for more! See ya!