Danny's Journal, Part 9- Boring town is boring

After getting the Fly HM from Chuck's wife, I taught it to Thorne and few on him back to Olivine. Flying is rather scary, but convenient, as I don't have to fight through hoards of wild Pokemon and trainers to get to another town.

Anyway, when I got to Olivine, I quickly went up the elevator to the top room to meet the Gym Leader and the Ampharos she was looking after. I gave the Secretpotion to her, and she fed the medicine to Ampharos. Almost immediately, its sickly appearance vanished, and its tail started glowing again. The girl thanked me, and introduced herself as Jasmine. She then left after making sure the Ampharos was okay to go back to her Gym.

I heard from some of the locals that her Gym was Steel-type, so I went into her Gym with Vesuvius in the lead. She effectively wiped out her whole team, the only Pokemon on Jasmine's team that gave her some trouble was her Steelix, but a few fire-attacks later, it was down and another badge was in hand.

I checked my Pokegear to see where I could go next, and Mahogany town seemed like my best bet. I flew to Ecruteak, and didn't feel like all the way through Mt. Mortar, so I just Surfed across the river to the other side. On a small island in the river, I was about to cut through some brush when something knocked me back and dashed off- it was Suicune again. Right on cue, Eusine came running up behind me, started shouting another monologe about Suicune, and then ran past, swimming across the river in the direction of Suicune.

My god, I have so many stalkers- Silver, the Kimono ladies, Eusine, and now Suicune. Do I have a sign on my back saying 'Stalk me; it's funny' or something? I swear, this is getting ridiculous.

I made it to Mahogany Town without much trouble, though. Well... there's not much there. Just a few buildings, the Pokemon center, and the Gym. The Gym is closed, and some guy is blocking the way to the next route, so the only way to go was north, towards the Lake of Rage. My radio also started glitching randomly when I walked towards the north, so I figured I would investigate.

There was a surprising amount of trainers out, seeing as the weather wasn't that great. It actually started storming as I was heading towards the lake. I did catch a female Mareep on the way, whom I named Raya. I'll train her later when I have the time, she's cute and I don't have an Electric-type yet. Ao Tonbo also evolved as we were training on the route, as well. He's now a Yanmega; and my Arceus, he's huge. He's taller than I am, and he's a freaking dragonfly. I fear for my poor shoes, they're bite-ridden as it is.

The lake itself was rather impressive, even though it was practically raining bullets. I talked with a guy standing near the edge of the lake, and he said that the Gyarados in the lake are mad because of a signal coming from Mahogany Town. Curious, I got on Dutchess and surfed out near the middle of the lake. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, until a giant splash nearly knocked me out of the lake, and a giant Gyarados was suddenly staring me in the face.

Only thing was, it wasn't blue. It was red. Another shiny? Hell yes.

I sent out Indiana to combat this beast. He quickly used Glare to paralyze it, which helped slow the Gyarados down quite a bit. With a few bites, the Gyarados was weakened enough to throw an Ultra Ball... and it stayed in.

Heh, I'm beginning to wonder if shinies aren't that rare as they're supposed to be. Anyway, I named the Gyarados Denryuu, and I'll be training him as an addition to my team soon. I surfed back to the lake edge, and there was a guy in a cape with a huge Dragonite at his side, looking at the sign for the Lake of Rage. He also had bright red spiky hair. God, not another freaky ginger stalker.

He approached me, and said I looked like a competent trainer. He introduced himself as Lance, then explained that he was investigating the Lake because a mysterious radio signal coming from Mahogany was forcing all of the Magikarp in the Lake to evolve (apparently, the Red Gyarados I caught was a product of that experiment). I guess he was some sort of police officer or something.

Lance then asked me if I was interested in helping him infiltrate what he believes is a Team Rocket base in Mahogany town. I was shocked that he would ask me to do something of that caliber, but I quickly accepted. He thanked me for being willing to help him, then suggested that we meet early tomorrow at the Pokemon center in order to plan. He quickly left on his Dragonite, and I followed on Thorne.

I'm going to stop this entry here; I need my rest for tomorrow. My team is psyched, this is the biggest thing we've ever done. I just hope we don't screw it up...

Current Team:
Quilava 'Vesuvius' Female, Lv.35
Fearow 'Thorne' Male, Lv.34
Arbok 'Indiana' Male, Lv.34
Haunter 'Scheme' Male, Lv.34
Shiny Yanmega 'Ao Tonbo' Male, Lv.34
Espeon 'Imani' Female, Lv.34