It was noon and the group was on the move again. Luffy drove the Trampler with Monferno sitting behind him while Zoro and Gabite ran next to it. In the cart awoke Riolu with a hangover. It grabbed to it head as the headache worsened and looked around. Zoro noticed Riolu and said "You're up, huh. You should probably not drink much in the future"
Luffy looked back and smiled. "You were awesome! Where did you learn that dance of yours?" asked Luffy and Riolu thought back on yesterday before its face became red and it tried to hide its face in embarrassment. Zoro slowed down and ran beside the cart before grabbing a bottle.
"Here, drink some water. It will help you with the hangover" said Zoro while holding out the bottle and Riolu took it and began to drink. Zoro smiled and returned by Gabite's side. They continued for a while till Luffy stopped the Trampler and looked ahead. Further ahead was a big city, filled with skyscrapers and big buildings. They could see a harbor in the city and Zoro took out a map.
"The next pre-Gym is on an island in the south. Will need to find a ship to take us down there" said Zoro as he looked the map over. Luffy took a look and asked "Where are we?"
"Here" said Zoro as he pointed it out on the map.
"And where are we going?"
"There" said Zoro as he pointed it out.
"But Zoro… aren't that west from here?" asked Luffy confused.
Zoro looked the map over again, then crumbled it and threw it into the cart. Riolu took the map and began to fold it properly. Luffy and the group continued towards the city.
"Anyway…" started Zoro. "We'll have to get some money first, so let's go find this city's White Market"
When they were about to enter the city, saw they a big sign saying 'Nimbasa City'. They shrugged it off and continued into the city. The group was marveled to say the least. The city had several different kinds of shops, big companies and gyms to train ones Pokémons. Luffy and Monferno's eyes turned to stars, Zoro and Gabite smirked and Riolu looked in awe. Only Zoro and Gabite had seen an actual city before but they were also amazed with this city. Riolu couldn't stop looking around at all the people and Pokémon. It didn't even know that there were so many creatures living in the world.
Luffy and Zoro finally found what they were looking for. They stood in front of a building that looked a small palace and Luffy asked "So… what is this place?"
"It's where we sell the Pokémons we have caught. A White Market Dealer" answered Zoro and they entered the building. Inside were hundreds of people walking around and on the wall on the far of the end room was a giant picture of a Reshiram. Zoro walked up to a desk and the lady on the other side said "Welcome to Nimbasa City's White Market Dealer. What can I do for you today?"
"We have some Pokémons to sell" said Zoro.
"How many?"
"Just three"
"Go to desk 1 and talk with the lady behind the desk"
"Ok" said Zoro as he walked back to Luffy and the others and they proceed to desk one.
After waiting in line for an hour, they finally came to desk and Zoro said "I have Pokémon to sell"
"Oh my, pretty direct aren't we. How many?" asked the lady.
"Three. Two will be sold in a pair and one alone"
"Is it those three here?" asked the lady as she looked Monferno, Gabite and Riolu over.
"No" said Zoro simply.
"A shame. All of them had would go for a nice price. Now can I see your cards?" asked the lady and Luffy and Zoro showed their White Market cards.
The lady then asked them to follow a man into a room. When they entered the room looked it like a mix between a training room and an examining room. A doctor came into the room and asked "Are these the Pokémons?"
"No, they are still in their balls" said Luffy before taking out the balls.
"Ok, call out the pair first" said the doctor.
Luffy called out the Beautiflys out and the doctor began to examine them. Luffy got bored after a while and asked "What are you doing?"
"I am examining them for different things like if they are poisoned or paralyzed. If they are can we take 10% more of the general price or the outcome from the auction, depending on what you choose as payment"
Someone knocked on the door and a woman with short orange hair walked into the room. She looked at the doctor and asked "Are you done yet?"
"Soon Nami. I just have to give them a pep-pill and I will begin on the next one. I know this is your last client today and you will leave afterward, but give me some time, ok"
"Sorry, sorry I just have to go soon. You know…"
"I know. We will miss you here. Where else would we get an orange haired beauty to trick the costumers from?" said the doctor with a laugh before being smashed into the floor by said beauty.
"Don't say that in front of them!" she roared before walking out of the room. Zoro and Luffy just looked to make sure she was gone before helping the doctor up.
"Who was that?" asked Luffy as the doctor got up.
"That was Nami. She is a hell of a handful but she easily makes it up with her skill in selling Pokémon. She can always tell if a Pokémon is worth to go to the auction or not. Is it just sad that she chose to go back home to her village now. She were even offered a promotion but she refused"
Luffy looked at the door a while before the doctor said "Well, I'm done with these two. Can you call out the next?"
When they were done were they asked to follow a man up to another desk and behind it stood Nami.
"Good day, could you please put the balls into this machine?" she asked and Luffy first put the Beautiflys balls into the machine.
"Let me see… a male and a female. I recommend that you sell them as a pair for the general price"
"How much would that be?" asked Zoro, not trusting her.
"5000 dollars. It aren't much but since these are pretty common will it take some time to sell them and we can't guaranty that it will be for a higher price" said Nami.
"We'll take it" said Luffy and Nami gave him the money.
"Now, are there more?" asked Nami and Luffy took out Teddiursa's ball and put it into the machine.
"Now… it's a male and is pretty rare. I'd say to take your chances with the auction"
"What's the general price?" asked Luffy.
"Let's see… 10.000 dollars" answered Nami "But I still say that you should go for the auction"
Luffy looked thoughtful a second and said "We will go for the auction"
"Excellent, now you will have to wait a while before the money will come in. could I ask you to stay inside the building?"
"What about you came out to us in the plaza? We have parked our Trampler out there, so we shouldn't be so hard to find" said Luffy.
Nami looked like she would say no but instead said "Ok, I have go out there anyway so I can do that"
Luffy put on his trademark grin on and waved her goodbye as he and the group exited the building. A little while later were they sitting by the Trampler and Luffy said "Boorreeed!"
"Yeah, me to" said Zoro as he looked around. Something then caught his eyes and he said "Luffy"
"Yeah?"
"I got an idea. Just do something to bring in money while I'm gone, ok?"
Zoro and Gabite left and Luffy began to think. It didn't go well as he's face began to turn completely red and his head began to steam from overthinking. Meanwhile had Riolu convinced Monferno to train him and they began to spar. People began to watch the two Pokémons spar and that gave Luffy an idea. He took off his straw hat and began to walk up to people, asking them to donate to these Pokémons training. Many people gave Luffy a couple of bucks, some gave about 20 and there was one who gave a hundred.
After some time came Zoro back and saw the big crowd and smirked. He then walked through it and up to Luffy.
"Hi Zoro!" shouted Luffy. "See how much I got!"
Zoro looked at the overflowing hat and smirked.
"Good, then we can go on" said Zoro and put a sign up next to the Trampler. On the sign stood 'Win a one-on-one Pokemon battle and win 5000 dollars. 50 dollars.'
Luffy looked at the sign and asked "People have to pay to fight us?"
"Yeah and if they win, we'll give them five thousand bucks"
"But what if they win?"
"They won't" said Zoro with a smirk.
Zoro was right. A lot of people took the chance to win the 5000 and all of them lost. Three hours went past and they had reached their 100 victory when an unexpected challenger came forth.
"I will take a turn" said a female voice and Luffy looked to see Nami.
"Ah, Nami. Do you have the money?" asked Luffy and Nami nodded.
"Yep, but let's make a deal" suggested Nami "If I win over you, then I keep the money, ok?"
Luffy looked at Nami and said "Ok, you're on!"
Luffy and Nami stood opposite of each other and readied for battle. Luffy chose Monferno for the fight and Nami waited for Luffy to get ready. Monferno was ready and Nami called out a Meowth.
"Now Meowth! Use Pay Day!" ordered Nami and Meowth crosses its arms, then opened them quickly and multiple glowing white balls came out of the charm on its head.
Monferno quickly used Ember to counter and then used Mach Punch to get in close. Meowth dodged by a hair as the punch smashed into the ground.
"Use Fury Swipes!" ordered Nami and Meowth's claws began to glow white and it tried to swipe Monferno, who dodged by bending backwards and then used Close Combat to spin around and send a knee into Meowth's stomach. Meowth was sent flying high into the air and then crashed into the ground.
"MEOWTH!" screamed Nami as she ran to Meowth's side. She then took Meowth's unconscious and held it close, as tears rolled down her face.
"ZORO! GET OVER HERE! NOW!" yelled Luffy and Zoro and Gabite quickly came running.
Zoro took Meowth examine it and said "We need to get it to a Pokémon Center! Now!"
Nami grabbed Meowth and began to run as fast as she could. She ran for five minutes when something drove next to her. It was Zoro driving the Trampler with Gabite running next to it. In the cart sat Luffy and Monferno and when they were next to her, grabbed they her and pulled her into the cart.
"Now Zoro! Full speed!" yelled Luffy and Zoro stomped on the speeder.
Half an hour later. They had got to the Pokémon Center and were now waiting for the news.
"Excuse me" said a nurse and Nami got up from her seat. "Are you the owner of the Meowth that came in earlier?"
"Yes! Is she ok!?" shouted Nami.
"She is fine. If you had come later then she might had been in danger, but you got here quickly so she is just out cold for a while"
Nami began to cry tears of happiness when she heard the news and thanked the nurse. She then turned towards Luffy and Monferno, who wore giant grins, and smashed their faces in.
"What the hell do you think you are doing, hurting my Pokémon like that!?" roared Nami while looking like a demon.
"S-sorry" said Luffy in a semi-conscious state.
"You better be! If I had lost her then…" said Nami before Zoro intervened.
"Stop this! It's your own damn fault!"
"My fault!"
"Yeah! If you hadn't started the match in the first place, you Pokémon wouldn't be injured!" yelled Zoro.
Nami was just about to say something when Luffy said "Maybe so but it was Monferno that injured her so it's kind of my fault too"
Nami just looked at Luffy before handing him a convolute and said "Here"
"What's that?" asked Luffy.
"The money. I lost so I have to give them to you. There are 30.000 in it. I did say you should try the auction on this one" said Nami as she gave him a wink.
The night was long but Luffy and Nami used it to talk while Zoro and the Pokémons slept.
Hi everyone.
Nami's first Pokémon is Meowth! Who had not seen it coming? Her team will have a wide array of Pokémon so I might ask you for suggestions in the future.
