Vacation was finally over, Giratina had slunk off sometime this morning, but not after I shoved some food in his arms as he left.
The food may or may not have been filled with sleep drugs that can easily effect Pokemon, don't ask how I got them, let's just say I found a guy and let's leave it at that.
I doubt it would actually have a strong enough effect on Giratina of all people, but I'd be damned if I didn't make that man sleep somehow. Even if I had to one day jump him alongside my pokemon.
"Koraidon?" She nudged me and I let a small laugh out as I scratched her chin.
"Everything fine, I'm just thinking on ways to make our new tired friend sleep more." I said as I looked at the map around us with a bit of indecision. Where to now?
Blaine, and get the Volcano Badge?
I had done some research, Blaine had closed his gym down like in the anime due to the fact it had become a tourist attraction, the whole Cinnabar Island.
However, the gym was still listed as officially up, a small tip was left on the page saying only those worthy of finding the gym will find it, said tip was left by Blaine…
So I realized that the gym was in the secret spot like the anime had it, so I decided to do it that way. I would find the secret entrance and go battle Blaine. I just want all the main line badges, all eight.
Even if I gotta plan to get one or two of them. Though I'm really hoping I don't have to deal with a wild Mewtwo battle for my eighth gym badge at Viridian City, scary~
Now though, I need to focus, Blaine's gym should be somewhere on Cinnebar island, and ima find it. Now if I could just remember where the damn point was to find it.
Though perhaps I should move myself over to cinnebar first before trying anything else. Welp, time for a quick journey.
"Lapras, off to Cinnabar Island, that way!" I ordered as soon as I got to the beach, it was also something I noticed now.
I had a sense of direction again.
Did that plate fix my internal compass?
Because that was the only thing I could think of in that regard to it.
Oh well, I'm not going to look a gift like that suspiciously. It's nice to be able to get somewhere properly myself.
Focusing I thought hard, the gym was a volcano, at least the battle area of it, located directly above the volcano, so it shouldn't be too hard, not to mention how unique in design it is witu all those little pillar points.
After thinking on that, I decided to close my eyes and enjoy the nice breeze as we moved along, at some point I'm pretty I and Lapras started singing a song together.
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After a couple hours of high speed movement on Lapras, plus beating the crap out of a wild Gyarados who tried hyper beaming us, we finally arrived.
It was a nice smooth trip actually, the water was nice and calm, no random trainers appearing and wanting to battle, just a calm ride, I did appreciate that.
Now here we are, Cinnabar Island, and I gotta say, this was a nice island, however I could also see the giant volcano and figured that was my destination. It would be an easy climb up to reach it with Koraidon.
"Good job Lapras, take a nice rest." I said as I recalled him once we arrived on the beach, the looks sent to me as I arrived were slightly amusing, just watching a guy sail up after your Lapras knocked a fucking Gyarados out with a couple attacks really did look good.
Probably scary too.
Oh well.
With a hum, I set out to find the best spot to climb the volcano, I'm getting that volcano badge one way or another.
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Ok, so apparently climbing the volcano is illegal and psychic pokemon are watching, apparently some dumb idiots tried blowing it up or something, wow, total dick move. Can't let someone speedrun to the gym huh?
Welp, hard way it is. Time to find Blaine in his shitty disguise and get my appointment set, I want to battle damnit!
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Ok, finding a old man wearing a wig, fake mustache and what I think was aviators, is fucking hard. Of course differentiating between what as an anime thing to the real world wasn't something to dismiss, plus who's to say this was anime Blaine too?
It could be a different version of him, or none of those. This is real life, it's not going to just be something so simple as bumping into him, would it?
I looked around curiously, but sadly no person within fifteen feet of me at least. Damn, there goes my hope for anime cliches.
"Are you alright youngster? Need some help figuring some burning stuff out?"
Oh my Arceus, anime cliches are real!
"You! Damnit, I was hoping was for this, but why!?" I whisper yelled and slumped in defeat.
"Are you ok?" A hint of concern, oh how nice of you old man Blaine, I promise not to break you in the gym battle. Too much~
"Oh yes, in fact I'm quite happy now, gym leader Blaine~" I said grinning as he froze momentarily before shaking his head.
"I'm no gym leader youngster, just a concerned old man who's offering a hand." He tried and I raised an eyebrow at him, like come on, we really gonna do this.
"Come on~, the secrets out, can I at least schedule my appointment for the battle in the volcano?" I asked and he slumped over sad, was he hoping to riddle drop me something?
"Youngsters these days. Can't have no fun. No one appreciates my riddles." The man grumbled quietly and I smiled awkwardly, guess I interrupted his planned riddles. Oops, not sorry.
"You can still give me a riddle if you want, even if I know the location is the volcano." I said quietly and he perked up.
"I can be world sundering, I sleep lightly, a single touch can set me off, what am I?" Blaine said and I laughed softly.
"Molten rock is contained inside of me, but I am not pot, I sleep the day and nights away, but one day I might burn bright and deadly, what am I?" I retorted and he grinned at me widely.
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I'm not quite sure how it happened, but I ended up shooting riddles back and forth with Blaine over volcanos as we walked towards a secret hatch buried in the side of the volcano, kinda cool to be honest.
Once we were inside, he took off his accessories to reveal a bald man with a white mustache. How the flying fucking did he conceal that thing?
"Man, those things get itchy." Blaine said with a smile as he scratched his mustache and grabbed a white hat with a red circle like around on, and a wooden cane that looks like it should be a magic staff.
"Now, I've got the gym being set up for a proper battle, so tell me young man, how did you know who I was?" Blaine's eyes pierced me with a thousand yard stare.
Oops, might have abused my meta knowledge a bit too much. How am I gonna get out of this now?
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Cliffhanger motherfuckers, also mainly because I wanted to get a chapter out after seventeen(17) days.
I do hope you enjoyed the chapter, I also added an auxiliary chapter that will list the teams information, also so it's easier for me to keep track of the Pokemon moves and stuff too, much easier then then scrolling through the the moves listed on the site lol.
Anyway, till next time~
Bye!
-Voidy, The Insomniac