A darkened sky is illuminated by street lamps in celadon city. Tristan sleeps in his room in the Pokemon centre. The beds are simple mattresses one can put on the floor with pillows that you rent out for a small fee, say £10 for a night sleep. Tristan was comfortable with the simple bed, it was definitely better after you had spent weeks trekking and sleeping on cold forest floors in a sleeping bag. That was one aspect of being a Pokemon trainer that Tristan hadn't grown comfortable with yet. There were Pokemon dancing in the sky and Ivysaur watched them with intent. Tristan was asleep and had let his Pokemon out of their poke balls to sleep in the same room as him. Ivysaur watched the night sky roll along through the window. It looked longingly, maybe painfully, it was hard to know what emotions were going through it. It was still a young Pokemon which wasn't wild any more. For Ivysaur that life was over. But it was nice to reminisce over what it previously had. Looking outside was a nice reminder of how it used to live. It yawned and padded around the room before falling asleep in the corner. The other Pokemon slept by the door or around Tristan. They had come a long way in their journey.
Tristan paced around the city looking for the department store. He checked the map, it was a few blocks down and spread the entire half of the block. Tristan looked again, a left here took him to an apartment building. He sighed and got back on the road when a voice yelled from behind him. "Tristan? Tristan, oi," he looked round, surprised at the commotion. The streets weren't very busy at this time of morning. "Tristan , over here mate," the voice yelled. It was clear who it was and Tristan looked happy to see the figure come bounding up to him. It was Steve, he had grown a bit in the few months they hadn't seen each other and his clothes were different. He had an official Pokemon league hat as well. Steve and Tristan slapped hands and began to walk down the path.
"Wow, didn't think you'd be here already," Steve began, "I was ahead of you when I last called professor oak." Tristan shrugged his shoulders, "I've been here for a few weeks. I'm actually at the Pokemon centre if you wanna stay over for the night." Steve took it under consideration. "It would help. See, I've got to be down the bikers path soon and that's gonna take a long time to go down. I'm heading off to fuchsia city next, what about you." Tristan replied, "I'm going to saffron city next because of the gym and-" Steve cut him off, "gyms." Tristan looked at him stunned. "What do you mean gyms? Is there more than one?" Steve laughed, "oh yeah. It's not officially a gym but it's recognised as a former gym until the second gym came over. The rumour is they had a fight between the two gym leaders and the second guy won so the first guy had to pack up and move. It's a fighting dojo now." Tristan said that seemed cool.
"Did you see Mia? I didn't know this but she's on her journey. Her mum told my dad over poker. Apparently she's already beaten 5 gyms." Steve was surprised as he gave out the information and Tristan puffed out air to show his genuine shock. "I met her back in pewter city and she had a Squirtle." "What?" Yelled Steve, "where did she get a Squirtle, I got the Squirtle. Damn, if I'd known that I would have asked for a Charmander." "Yeah, I wanna restart," joked Tristan. "Hey, wanna see this?" He asked and got his badge case out his pocket. He opened it up to reveal four badges, the first three collecting dust. Each badge had a different design unique to their gym. "Nice," said Steve as he stared at it. Tristan paused. "I thought you had more than I did?" Steve smiled and pointed at himself, "well I don't wanna make you feel bad. I've got those 4 plus the one from saffron city. That gym was a bitch." "Why? What was so bad about it?" Steve shrugged, "the woman there controlled psychic types. Yeah, she was pretty tough," he thought back. His battle had been tough. Sabrina had used 4 Pokemon with a range of excellent attacks. Steve had lost a couple early on and had trouble with her alakazam. "You see Tristan. You got to watch for her alakazam, it's the toughest thing I've ever battled. No doubt about that. It took me two goes to beat that gym. You gotta make sure your Pokemon are that level. Make them high because if you don't she's. Gonna destroy you. I only won cos of blastoise." Tristan nodded, "so you got a blastoise now. Congrats mate, that's amazing." "Cheers, how's Bulbasaur? It evolved yet?" Tristan nodded, " but only once." I've caught a few others too. Steve nodded. "Do you want another? I know a guy and a place that is giving away a Pokemon. It's quite a good one too."
Tristan followed the instructions Steve had given him. He had given Steve the key to his room back at the Pokemon centre because Tristan was going to spend the day shopping but had got sidetracked by the interesting proposition Steve had put to him. He climbed the stairs from the back door to the top floor. He was excited at getting this new Pokemon and liked the idea of what it could become. At the top floor, there was a room with a door that you had to go round to enter. Tristan did that and opened the door, half expecting someone in the room. Instead there was the pokeball on the desk as Steve had described. Tristan took it and threw it in the air, excited at seeing the Pokemon that was inside. The ball burst open and a stream of white energy revealed what was inside. A small dog with a white main appeared in front of Tristan, it was very frightened and timid. Tristan got down on one knee and extended an arm. He smiled at the young Pokemon and began to talk to it. "Hello there." He stopped, the Eevee coiled under its tail. Tristan stopped and waited for Eevee to look up. It was frightened, absolutely frightened at seeing Tristan. He took out Dexter and got the pokedex entry for Eevee.
"Eevee. It's genetic code is irregular. It may mutate if it is exposed to radiation from element stones." Interesting, what does that last bit mean said Tristan. Steve had said that Eevee evolves into different Pokemon when you used a stone on it and Tristan figured that. Must be what he had meant. Tristan moved towards Eevee which was crawling under a table. He scanned it with the pokedex. "It knows sand attack, quick attack and double team." It seems to be a high enough level, thought Tristan. He had to wrestle with Eevee to pick it up but managed to calm it down by putting it on the desk and stroking its head. It seemed this Pokemon would take a lot of work to get it to trust any trainer. Tristan wondered if it had a bad experience with a trainer or if it was just naturally shy. Steve had said the guy who offered him the Eevee was someone quite high up in the city. Tristan had suspicions but was told by Steve it was okay to take the Eevee. Tristan released it from the pokeball it was in and took out one of his own just to make sure nothing dodgy was going on. It was a strange thing to find but the Eevee was just sitting there and the whole room looked dusty. He noticed Eevee's eyes were wide open all the time. He shrugged and let Eevee stay on his shoulder and wrap itself around him. Tristan didn't know what it was doing but just went with it. He walked out the room and left as quickly as he could, the whole situation seemed very strange to him.
A few days later and Eevee was still warming to Tristan. Tristan had introduced it to everyone else and all the other Pokemon had made it feel welcome. Tristan was training in an area outside celadon city and had all his Pokemon doing practise battles or powering up their moves. Tristan yells into the sky, "Pidgeotto, use wing attack." Pidgeotto is quick as a flash, completing an arch in the sky with lightning quick reflexes and slapping its wing against the tip of the ground. "Good now again," instructs the trainer. Pidgeotto effortlessly archs downwards with its wing touching the ground and glowing powerfully. "Now I want a sand attack," Pidgeotto flew down quickly and flapped its wings to create a storm of sand that goes in front at an invisible target. "Good, keep up the power and keep getting stronger with these attacks Pidgeotto." Tristan turned his head round to see two vines lashing at the air like a sharp whip. Tristan can hear the crack of the vines lashing. "Quicker," says Tristan and Ivysaur is sweating hard as it ups the tempo. Tristan waits a few minutes, seeing the impressive speed which Ivysaur is delivering its thrusts. "Now dodge an attack to your left and deliver a vine whip." Ivysaur dives to its left, using its back legs to stabilise its body and cracks the vine whip which appears less powerful than before. "OK, not a problem Ivysaur. You need to turn and crack in one movement. The more times we do it, the better you will get." Tristan ran with Ivysaur, practising ducking and dodging his body with his Pokemon as Ivysaur practised the dodge and then the vine whip. Tristan spends all morning doing this with Ivysaur.
In the afternoon, Tristan is ordering sandslash to keep using its dig attack to quickly dive down and jump up when it hears Tristan clap for it. Tristan lays small rocks and dummy targets on the floor and sandslash is practising jumping up where the target is and knocking it over. Eevee is still practising it's quick attack and Tristan calls it over to watch sandslash. He sits down and strokes Eevee in his lap while sandslash is doing a slash exercise, pushing back an invisible target and delivering high power slashes at it while jumping forwards each time. Eevee watched for a few minutes then fell asleep in Tristans lap. Tristan smiled, he didn't like slacking training but he would allow Eevee to get away with it because he was still warming to it.
Tristan is browsing in the celadon department store. He is on the fourth floor, which is where the wiseman gifts are sold. These gifts are very expensive and are the rarest of the rare. Tristan gazes at them through their glass cases and looks at the water stone. He is interrupted by a man who touches his shoulder. "This is the water stone. It evolves water Pokemon. If you look over there," he pointed to his left at a yellow stone In another glass cage. "You'll see a thunder stone. That can get you a raichu or a jolteon." Tristan tilted his head, "what ones work on an Eevee?" The salesman answered him with some finesse. "we have the fire stone for flareon, the thunder stone for jolteon and water stone for vaporeon." Interesting, thinks Tristan but the price is too steep. He can only afford one and only needs one so he buys the stone that suits him. He continues to browse the store but not much else is to his taste apart from some bottles of water and a TM for Rock slide.
Tristan walks into the game corner with the coo case he was given by the gentleman in the cafe and heads to the counter. He trades money for coins to use in the slot machines. After a few games and not much venture, Tristan talked to one of the gamers on the slot machines and was given a huge amount of coins. He found that by talking to people and checking underneath the machines he could get coins. One guy told him about the Pokemon on offer at the prize counter. Tristan had a look at the prize but bulked at the prices. There were some very rare pokemon on offer but Tristan decided against it. Maybe later, he only had 2k in his chin case. The Pokemon on offer were very attractive proposition, he thought as he left. Tristan goes back into the game corner and plays on the slots for an hour but loses money. He notices a man in black at the back of the game corner in a darkened corner. There is a switch which he looks like he is staring at so Tristan decides to investigate, thinking there might be another floor of machines. As he walks up the guy puts a hand in his pocket. Tristan smiles at him and asks, "sorry to bother you, but is there another floor in here for the slots." The guy grits his teeth and Tristan notices the suspicious black jacket he is wearing. "Beat it kid," he replies. Tristan folds his arms, "I'm only wondering. That switch looks like there is another floor underneath. The man stares straight into Tristans eyes, "I said beat it." Tristan shrugs and walks away, but watches the man for the next hour while playing on the slots. He wins big on one game but loses a few in a row. He sees the man leave the switch for a few minutes and Tristan checks outside to watch the man outside having a smoke. Tristan dashes up to the switch and flicks it, to his shock a portion of the wall lifts up and reveals a flight of stairs heading down. Tristan looks round, the view of everyone is obscured by a large row of bookcases and besides everyone is too busy on the machines. Tristan peers down, the stairs go down a while and he thinks about it but decides to risk going down. "It's probably nothing, could be a new floor. Still, it's weird they would hide it from everyone. It might be one of those illegal rings I've heard about, man that would be sweet." He chuckles to himself as he reaches the bottom of the stairs. He stares at the floor in shock. It is evident that the floor is not a room that should have been found. It is not full of people and machines like Tristan imagined, instead there are locked doors and a few people walking about in the shadows. They are too far away to tell who they are but he can hear gruff voices. He decides to hide in the shadows and explore a little. He grabs the first pokeball from his hand that he can find and keeps himself low. He keeps a mental note of where the stairs are for a quick exit that may be necessary. He hears a voice coming from the stairs, "hey it's open." The he hears running down the stairs, he looks up and sees the creepy guy from the game corner running down the stairs and he sees Tristan from the Middle of the stairs. He has taken his jacket off and is wearing a black vest with a giant "R" printed in the middle. Tristan can't make out what it means but is sure the guy means trouble. The guy points at Tristan. "You, how? Never mind that. Kid, you're gonna be sorry you found this place. You're going down." He grabs a pokeball from his belt and throws it and it lands on the floor a few yards away from Tristan. It explodes and reveals a large brown rat with a sabre tooth. "Raticate," it yells and gnarls its teeth. Tristan grabs the pokedex from his pocket and points it frantically at the Pokemon.
"Raticate. It uses its whiskers to maintain its balance. It apparently slows down when they are cut off." Tristan throws out the pokeball in his to reveal sandslash. He breathes a sigh of relief, in a life or death battle the reliable sandslash was what he needed. The grunt reveals himself, "kid, this is team rockets base. You lose and I'm stealing you're pokemon and good luck being seen again. Trust me if you lose this, you ain't getting out ever again." Tristan gulps and begins to feel the pressure. Sandslash slashes its claws together and stares at Tristan, who pulls himself together. "Raticate, destroy him." The team rocket grunt orders and raticate goes flying at Tristan with its teeth bared. Tristan throws his hands in front of his face in fear but raticate is tackled in midair by sandslash who Rams it into a wall and slashes at it. Raticate cannot gain any purchase and is struggling, trying to bite sandslash. "Keep it up sandslash, use poison sting" Tristan orders and sandslash fires a barrage of poison darts at raticate that cause it to scream out in pain. Sandslash jumps a few yards away but raticate throws itself at sandslash and manages to grab its arm with its teeth, sinking them in painfully. Sandslash screams in pain and tries to shake it off but Tristan orders a slash with its other arm which goes right down raticates throat. Raticate flops to the floor and sandslash falls down also, screaming in pain. Raticate is unable to battle and the grunt growls before returning it. He throws out another pokeball to reveal a Zubat which makes a high pitched squeal. "Zubat, use supersonic," orders the grunt. Tristan thinks quickly and orders a dig and sandslash dives under the floor to avoid the attack. The grunt looks around and cannot tell where sandslash will resurface but sandslash resurfaces under Zubat and knocks it against the grunt with a powerful swipe. Zubat screams and Tristan yells at the grunt. "Now what are you going to do? Huh, you better run out of here before I destroy you." The grunt legs it back up the stairs and Tristan hears the sound of the switch activating, leaving the wall to click into place. Tristan gives a potion to sandslash and bandages its arm up. The bite is quite deep and Tristan has to return sandslash. He continues down a corridor before coming to a door less room with a table. Tristan looks at the contents on the table, he finds a moon stone and a key marked, boss' office. Tristan decides to take both and smirks at this stroke of luck. He continues down the hall to find some winding stairs that lead him to another floor. He goes down to find a maze of tiles. Tristan looks at the tiles and they are arrows that point in different directions. They look odd and when he steps on them he is sent spinning onto another tile. His head is left spinning and he wonders what it is. He walks forward and finds himself spinning into another tile. He falls over but begins to understand that stepping on a tile sends you spinning onto the others. There doesn't seem to be anybody on the floor at that moment so Tristan continues on the spinning tile maze until he finds the exit he is after. He turns round to find another guard standing near an elevator. He has one foot against the wall and is watching the floor, quite half assed. Tristan sees the elevator a few yards down from him and decides to make a break for the elevator. The guy sees him easily and yells at Tristan to stop. Tristan dashes to elevator and quickly presses the bottom button, thinking the bottom floor is where he will find whatever secret these people are hiding. The elevator descends quickly and Tristan can hear shouting all through the floors. The elevator dings open and Tristan grabs a pokeball instinctively in his hand and the doors open to reveal a rocket grunt staring him down. He rubs his hands together, "well kid, we've heard about you. You're going down and I'm getting that big promotion I've been waiting for." He throws a pokeball down and Tristan runs out of the elevator and bursts past the man. The pokeball explodes and reveals an Ekans. Tristan grabs his pokedex.
"Ekans. Moves silently and stealthily. Eats the eggs of birds, such as Pidgey and spearow, whole." Tristan stares the Pokemon down, which hisses back. Tristan throws the pokeball in the hand which reveals Eevee. "Eevee," it growls, perhaps a little too cutely and it stares Ekans down. "Well kid, that's a cute pokemon but you have no chance." Tristan raises his eyebrow and orders a quick attack. Ekans is struck before it even knows what has hit it and Eevee follows up with a sand attack but Ekans dodges. "Ekans, show this little punk your wrap attack," yells the grunt and Ekans grabs Eevee and begins to wrap its body around it. Eevee screeches in pain and Ekans hisses as it tightens its wrap and Eevee cannot move. "Eevee use sand attack, " and Eevee manages to get its back legs onto the ground and kick dirt at Ekans which loosens its grip. "Excellent," says Tristan and has Eevee attack with take down. Eevee charges Ekans down and slams it into a wall with a powerful take down. "Ekans use poison sting," orders the grunt and Eevee is assaulted by a barrage of stings that Ekans unleashes at it. Eevee flops to the floor but Tristan orders it to get up. Eevee growls at Tristan but gets up and uses quick attack on Ekans which knocks it to the floor and leaves it unconscious. Eevee rolls over and starts yapping and Tristan runs over to it and picks it up. "Hahaha, you did it." He rubs its stomach and the grunt yells that the battle isn't over. He throws another pokeball in front of him and reveals a bigger snake onto the field. "Try this on for size kid. You're Eevee won't beat my arbok," he smirks confidently. The snake was at least three times the size of Ekans. Tristan called out his pokedex and it scanned the opponent.
"Arbok, it is rumoured that the ferocious warning markings on its belly differ from area to area."
Tristan returns Eevee and throws out the Pokemon he thinks would be best served to battle arbok. The pokeball touches the floor and out of it comes a gigantic scaly dragon that shocks the grunt stiff. Tristan smirks. "You're arbok won't beat my Gyarados." Gyarados roars loudly, shaking the floor underneath the two trainers. "Gyarados, use dragon rage," yells Tristan and Gyarados roars loudly and sends a spinning cyclone which crashes into arbok. Arbok is thrown against a wall and has clearly taken some heavy damage. "How did you get a Gyarados?" Yells the grunt, but it sounds like gibberish and Tristan orders a hydro pump which easily finishes off its opponent. The grunt returns his fallen pokemon and runs for the elevator. Tristan cuts him off, "what's through that door? What are you hiding from the world?" The grunt tries to press a button frantically but Tristan has Gyarados glare at him and he is unable to move. "Look don't hurt me please, and I'll tell you. I'll tell you everything please don't hurt me." He begs at Tristan who stares calmly at him. "Alright, the boss of our whole operation is through those doors. He has the silph scope with him. It's this thing where you can see ghost pokemon, it's a prototype there's like only one left. Please don't hurt me, I've told you everything you need to know." Tristan points at the grunt, "Gyarados return," he holds out the pokeball and Gyarados falls back inside. "This silph scope, what is it? Why hide it?" The grunt talks quickly, trying to save himself. "It's very rare, it was made by silph co. It lets you see the ghost pokemon in lavender town. The boss thinks it's worth loads. He's through that door but kid, if I were you. Turn round. Turn round now, he's a champion. He's a world class trainer. You have no chance."
Tristan turns the key in the lock and bursts through the door. There is a large desk in front of him and a small man jumps up from his seat. "So, you got through. How did you find this hideout? By luck," Tristan nods and Tristan to talk but Giovanni cuts him off. "Don't speak kid, listen. I'm the boss of a huge organisation. Something you couldn't even imagine. We aim to achieve things no ordinary person can dream of, so you will,excuse me for moving you out the way. It's just business. "He throws a pokeball out of his hand and it reveals a gigantic rock-snake. "Onix, take him down," Tristan throws out another pokeball. It reveals Ivysaur. "If you're the boss of an organisation, what are you doing down here?" Tristan asks.
Giovanni has onix use bind and it scoops up Ivysaur and begins to sap its energy by squeezing its body. Ivysaur yells in pain but Tristan has Ivysaur use vine whip and it lashes onix hard with its vines. Onix is forced to release its grip and Ivysaur hits it with another vine whip. Giovanni speaks, "this is my headquarters. This is where the paperwork gets done and you have burst into my office uninvited. Onix, use rock throw." Onix slams its rock hard tail down onto Ivysaur which is caught full on by the impact. "No, you don't, " yells Tristan, "Ivysaur use razor leaf, now." Ivysaur launches a barrage of leaves at onix but onix endures the hit.
"No way," yells Tristan, taking a step back, "that had to beat it." Giovanni laughs manically opposite him. "Onix, use rock throw." Onix thrusts its tail down on Ivysaur and the impact is so powerful Ivysaur is knocked clean out when onix lifts its tail up.
Tristan yells at his Pokemon but Giovanni laughs. "Kid, my pokemon are the toughest in the land. You aren't a boss if you have weak pokemon, kid." Tristan threw out his second pokeball to reveal Pidgeotto and Giovanni laughed. "Kid, you need to get the message. Go rhyhorn," and his pokeball revealed a Pokemon with a big horn. Tristan got out the pokedex.
"Rhyhorn. It's massive bones are 1000 times more powerful than human bones. It can easily knock a trailer flying."
"Go Gyarados," yells Tristan and throws Gyarados out. It's roars impatiently and attacks rhyhorn with a water gun that soaks the office. Rhyhorn is thrown against a wall and Tristan orders another attack. Rhyhorn shocks Tristan by dodging the attack and ramming Gyarados with a horn attack. Gyarados is thrown to the ground and rhyhorn mercilessly attacks Gyarados by piercing it with its tough horn. Tristan orders Gyarados to use water gun but rhyhorn endures the hit without looking too damaged. Gyarados roars. At rhyhorn which roars threateningly back at Gyarados. Giovanni orders horn attack and rhyhorn powerfully jumps onto Gyarados and pierces it before landing a killer horn drill onto it. Gyarados is left unable to battle and Tristan has to return it. "Hahahaha. That's it kid, give up. I told you once, I'm a winner. You're nothing, okay kid. I'm always going to defeat you." Tristan snaps back with a strong defence. "You're not better than me. Just because you're the boss of some organisation don't mean nothing to me. I'm gonna be the champion of Kanto." Giovanni smirked at Tristan, almost undermining what he was saying. "Well, you're an ambitious one aren't you. You got spirit and guts, but you're nothing to me. See that silph scope over there, go on." Tristan stared at him and snatched the scope off the desk. "That thing will help you see ghosts in the lavender tower. Now you're going to get out of here before i lose my patience." He gestures to the door and Tristan runs through. He takes the elevator up and thinks about the long journey he has to make before becoming an elite like Giovanni. Giovanni defeated his Pokemon despite having the type disadvantage. Tristan thinks a lot more training is required for all his Pokemon.
Tristan is at a clearing in a forest near celadon city doing some more training. He has been training non stop for two weeks because he lost so badly to Giovanni. He realised how much training was truly required to get to the top. Ivysaur has learnt leech seed and Tristan has noted how much more powerful its vine whip and razor leaf have gotten. He has Ivysaur use vine whip on a tree and keeps lashing it until it breaks. Tristan claps his hands and whistles at Ivysaur, pleased with its new power. Gyarados is in the river, practising its dragon rage. It whips up a cyclone of water and then hurls it across the river and it washes up on the bank. The attack looks very powerful and Tristan tells Gyarados to improve its water gun. "The more powerful water gun is, the less trouble I'll have with battling rock and ground types." Gyarados roars at him and begins to shoot powerful jets of water downstream. Excellent, thinks Tristan and he looks at Eevee. It is shooting round an area designed for its quick attacks. It is a circular area that Tristan created and Eevee is not allowed outside the arena. It is designed to better it's turning movements. Eevee uses sand attack which involves powerfully kicking its hind legs and shooting mud and sand at its opponent. The attack will blind the opponent and lower the accuracy of their moves. Tristan looks at his pokedex and looks up the moves that Eevee can learn. He isn't too impressed by the move set but thinks about what he could evolve Eevee into. At midday he calls the Pokemon over for lunch, apart from Gyarados who he throws a few fish. Gyarados happily chomps them up, then goes hunting down the depths of the river. Eevee is ravished and gnaws feistily at its food, the basic pokemon food that every PokeMart has. Ivysaur ate seeds and Pidgeotto ate the insects that the PokeMart sold at high prices in big batches. Sandslash liked to dig for its own food. Though it was a member of Tristans team, a trainer had to recognise the habits of their Pokemon. Everyone enjoyed lunch and Tristan talked to his Pokemon about what was going to come in the next week.
"Right, now we're all sitting down. I know Gyarados isn't here but it's more of a rogue than any of you and to be honest we can do this talk without it. All 4 of you need to listen carefully. In the next week, we will have reached saffron city, it's not far now. In that city is a gym, a tough gym. It deals in something we've never seen before." All his Pokemon gaze at him curiously. "It's a psychic gym. Now let that sink in. Psychic Pokemon have the power to move things with their mind. It's crazy, it's not even something I can imagine but despite this we can still beat them. We have to beat them. They may be strong, but they have their weaknesses. The reason these training sessions have been so difficult is because we need to get to a level where we can compete with these psychic types. They are going to be tougher than anything you have expected so far. But, I do have some strategies. They have attacks like confusion, which Ivysaur you came up against once. They can lift you up and take control of your body and throw you down and against walls. We need to be able to stop them getting to that stage, we need to be quicker than them. Eevee, you're quick attack will be useful there. Sandslash, your dig attack will be useful. Ivysaur I might need you two. I'm certainly going to use Gyarados because of its power. Steve told us everything about her. The gym leader has an alakazam which will fight Gyarados. That the way things are going to go. Eevee, you're going to be used first. Pidgeotto, you've faced three gyms already and you did great against Erika but you're gonna have to sit this one out. I'm not sure you are what I'm looking for in this gym battle. Sandslash and Eevee, I'm going to do more training with you two. Eevee, gym battles are tougher than any other battle so don't go in thinking you're going to win easily. Does everyone understand?"
Tristan scanned the circle at all their faces. Pidgeotto had its head turned away. Preening its feathers. Ivysaur just nodded, as did sandslash. Eevee looked wide eyed at Tristan. Hmm, thought Tristan, and returned everyone to their training schedules.
At the border of saffron city was a sign that said road works meant the city was shut off for the time being, Tristan looked aghast at this sign and scratched his head, there was a building between the gates in sight. "Where am I supposed to go now," hissed Tristan in anger. The map showed him the next city with a gym marked was down in Fuschia city. He followed the path with his finger, if it took him roughly two weeks to get to saffron city it looked like it would take a year to get down to Fuschia City. "Crap," he muttered but decided to try the building. Inside was a man siting at a counter. He had his feet up and was muttering something to himself. Tristan approached him and enquirer about the roadworks problem.
"Hey what's with the roadworks? Is the whole city closed?" Asked Tristan. The guard shook his head. "Nah, it's just your basic works but the city should be reachable in a week, two weeks tops. Boy I'm thirsty." He let that last part out by accident but Tristan picked up on it.
"Say, if you could get a drink. Some tea for instance, would you let a person in." The guard leaned in, "what you saying kid. What you saying?"
Tristan got the tea from his bag and placed it on the desk. "I have some tea. You can have it if it gets me in." The guard stared at the tea and his stomach rumbled. He relented.
"Go kid. I'm not supposed to be letting people in but don't mention me to no one." Tristan gave him thumbs up.
"Cheers, mister," he said and ran out into saffron city. It was a beautiful city with many tall glass buildings. It was a metropolis of modern art and technology. The buildings stood over people like Giants, there were so many floors. There was one building marked silph co which stood out. It must have 50 floors in it. Tristan wowed at the sight.
An important stop of any city is the gym and Tristan ran into the dojo that Steve had talked about. Apparently there was some master fighter there or something. "Hello, I'm here to challenge the fighting dojo master," he yelled and the fighters all stared up from their workouts. One of them approached him. "Hi there kid, " he said and extended his hand. Tristan shook it out and smiled. "So you want to battle the boss. Well you can, but you have to beat four of our best people to get to the boss. We are the fighting type dojo, we deal in fighting type pokemon. Are you ready?" Tristan nodded. "Yeah, I'm really pumped for this," he said and the guy smiled to him. "Excellent, it's always good when their eager. Show us you fighting spirit kid," he said and picked out a partner for Tristan to battle.
"Hey manny, come here. Yeah, leave that alone and get your arse over here. Kid wants a battle and you're our man aren't you." Manny nodded and shook Tristans hand, crunching it in the process. "Ouch," yelled Tristan and stared at the guy in contempt. Manny laughed at him. "Best of luck kid, and don't cry. "
The battle was over quickly with Tristan winning easily. "Unlucky manny. Good battle," Tristan said and shook his hand. Manny smiled at him. "Well done kid, that's one down. You now got three to go. Oi joey, look for smith. I think he's around. He's our next guy." Smith was located and gave Tristan his next match.
"Go sandslash," said Tristan and threw its pokeball onto the field. "Primeape, you're up," yelled smith and prime ape was thrown onto the battlefield. Tristan got out the pokedex.
"Primeape. Always furious and tenacious to boot. It will not abandon chasing its quarry until it's caught."
"Primeape, show us your low kick," ordered its trainer and Primeape attempted to sweep up sandslash with its feet but sandslash jumped the attack and landed a strong slash on prime apes face. Its opponent screamed in anger and its eyes lit up. They burned red with pure rage and smith smiled, "so that's got you now kid. Give him your rage, Primeape." Primeape started pummelling sandslash with its fists, the attack growing in power every time. Sandslash was fending off the blows as it could, but was taking damage, Tristan ordered a dig and sandslash threw itself underground before rising up underneath Primeape and throwing its opponent in the air. Primeape landed heavily on the floor. "Come on Primeape, show this kid what fighting types can do. Karate chop." Primeape struck sandslash with a powerful chop that caused sandslash to fall on its knees and Primeape struck its fallen opponent again. Sandslash instinctively curled up its body and Primeape struck its hand on sandslashs hard spiked body. It keeled up in pain and began to shake its hand to stop the pain. "Good, now finish this with poison sting," ordered Tristan and sandslash threw Primeape against a pillar with its powerful poison sting barrage. Primeape was unable to get up and sandslash was awarded the match. Tristan ran over to sandslash and gave it a hug. "Well done, sandslash," he smiled. "I believe that's two down." He smirked and joey smiled. "We have to say kid, you're tough. We thought you'd be gone by now, but number three is going to be the end. Black belt, come here," another trainer walked over to Tristan, he was a huge guy, easily 7 foot and muscular as anything. He bowed before Tristan, who did the same as a mark of respect. The match began as Tristan closed in on defeating the dojo.