My life as ash

Chapter 24

3 days later

Today should be the day I reach fuschia city. The maps and average travel times are all thrown of balance when you have an aura charged 10 year old going the average jogging speed of an adult for 12 hours. I made a report to professor oak about the muk and grime situation in the town. Mom was still worried about the team rocket incident since there might be even more team rocket members coming after me. Even after I explained that I could ride ari at Mach 1, I guess she is my mom and has every right to worry.

The city was pretty cozy. It had almost Victorian era construction with a traditional Japanese house in the middle. It always surprises me that a few towns and cities so close to each other have such a different culture, be so diverse and unique and still manage to fit into one region with practically no discrimination. It almost looked like an expanded town rather than a city.

The sky was clear and the air was pretty fresh. The people weren't the most friendly but they weren't that bad. It was already night when I arrived so I went to the pokemon center. The next day I felt an almost negligible shaking of something, immediately jumped towards the egg. It was hatching, the cracks got bigger and bigger until it slowly came out. Riolu. Yay,!

My progress in aura had almost stagnated cause I didn't have an aura pokemon. But this cute tiny 80 cm pokemon would be my aura partner. But it is still a pokemon."hello little one my name is ash. I am your aura partner.""RiOld rio" it was happy that it got an aura guardian. All pokemon are born with instinctive knowledge about themselves and a few things about the world. For aura pokemon, they know about aura and it's masters.

It knew quick attack, feint and swords dance. Pretty bare bones but that swords dance is pretty unusual. Must be either egg or tm move.

"Riolu meet Pikachu, ari, gabite, charmeleon. You will meet leviathan later". The pokemon are treating riolu almost like a little brother, even charmeleon has a soft spot. And little riolu is basking in all the attention and praise it is receiving. Aww my logical and cold heart is melting at this point.

" riolu won't be training beyond basic excesses for a few days. Pikachu and gabite are gonna be used for the fight against koga. Ari and leviathan will be used against Blaine and we will see about Giovanni later. Okay guys""pi"gaaabite""char""Pikapi". They looked fired up and ready to show off their skills to their younger sibling. riolu is a dude, so brother.

Anyway when I was walking out of the pokemon center, I felt an intent to observe coming from someone in the trees and an even fainter presence observing the person observing me. This was probably koga and the little girl. I walked up to the gym and just before the entrance, I turned around and said" little girl, don't you know that following someone is rude, also, old man why are stalking such a youn one you lolicon." The girl immediately came down from the tree while koga gracefully jumped down.

"My name is Janine and daaad you promised that you wouldn't follow me"" the world isn't as safe as you think Janine. It is my duty to protect you" why the father-daughter drama man, if I wanted drama, I would have stuck around Erika, Sabrina or daisy. " but..but when I beat the trainer you asked me to, you said I was strong enough"" that.. ahhh that was a lie. Yeah a lie.."

" can you guys just be honest with each other. Hanine or whatever your name is, your dad is just worried about you and rightfully so. There are many evil people out there like team rocket. Koga if you give your word to some one, keep it. If you don't want her to go, tell her the truth. Sheesh all of this drama can only be solved with honesty"

" That doesn't matter. You are here to battle me right. Lets fight." Man koga is just unnecessarily serious. Well the badge is what I came for. Plus mom is nagging me to come back soon, and after beating Blaine I wanna meet up with Gary and then mom. Also the book publishers said that they are gonna be sending my book to me for proofreading before release.

"Fine let's fight"" not here. In the gym". The battlefeild looked plain and like it had nothing on it, but with eyes like mine, you could see a few things off. The ground was uneven by a few cm, the size was off by a few inches and the light was extremely dim. The first too was made for trainers who had gotten used to the normal field, their normally advantage had turned into almost a crutch(carnival games do the same thing). The last one was a direct advantage to koga and his pokemon. Four on four.

" go koffing"" Pikachu"." Use poison Gas"" Dodge and agility". Another advantage he had was that the gym was indoors, this would cause any sound or gas to be contained and it's effect amplified. The koffing is pretty weak and pikachu is my third strongest pokemon behind leviathan and gabite, so the poison will not affect Pikachu too much or at all. Still I can now predict that he will use underhanded tactics to win.

Pikachu successfully dodged and raised its speed." Keep on increasing your speed"" koffing use smokescreen.". This tactic would me way more effective if used on amateur trainers but I had trained the senses of all my pokemon to an extreme degree, in the higher leagues smokescreen only works for a few seconds or on the audience.

The smoke mixed with the poison to create an trapped room. By now Pikachu was fast enough to beat most of his pokemon in a few strikes." Volt tackle"" dod-" was all koga was able to say before his koffing fainted. Koga was weak to physical attacks and his koffing was pretty weak.

" go muk, use earthquake" pretty strong move" Pikachu jump into the air, thunderbolt and body slam". The earthquake was pretty weak and didn't effect me at all." Use muddy water."ahh I get it, use earthquake to weaken the trainer rather than the pokemon. Muk couldn't even start with muddy water before being electrocuted and body slammed into by a Pikachu." Pikachu agility and quick attack"

Muk was pretty tanky comparatively so it took the hit pretty well. It responded by using muddy water. Pikachu was mildly hurt but could go on." Pikachu now thunderbolt" the thunderbolt struck the muk and took it out. Pikachu was hit only one so it could fight one more." Pikachu you wanna fight more or wanna retire?"" Pi" it looked at me as if I had gone mad before returning into a battle stance.

"go venomoth"" Pikachu thunder wave". Venomoth was sent out for its rather diverse variety of spores and irritability. Let the venomoth get a bit of its own medicine." No dodge" too late. Venomoth was paralyzed. "Thunder bolt" venomoth could only helplessly watch its own demise come towards it, unable to move. It was a one hit ko.

I guess venomoth is not his ace but a setter up in this world. "You have earned the right to fight my ace, go crobat.""Pikachu set up your last agility and volt tackle" there is a limit to how much a pokemon can boost, like issei hyodou, it is the limit of the physical body. The fact that Pikachu can perform 7 agilities is mind blowing.

"Dodge and steel wing" the Crobat was a fast pokemon, not as fast as a supercharged Pikachu however it lived a bolttackle with a few major injuries." Use poison gas" shit, this is much denser and stronger than koffing." Use all you power electro ball" Pikachu concentrated all of its power to create one supercharged ball of thunder.

Crobat had no chance to dodge. So a battered Pikachu had just sweeped koga yay!" You have armed the badge take it." Yes 6/8 badges.