Chapter 91 - Snorlax and a contract

Alex was now heading south east from Floral town towards the sea. There is a port nearby around hundred kilometre away and now with his new saddle, he could ride Pidgeot at much faster speed than before. He wanted to buy some berries for initial planting.

It is said that its fastest speed is equivalent to mach 2 or twice the speed of sound . It might be true but a young Alex could hardly endure a few hundred kilometre per hour speed on Pidgeot let alone thousand kilometers per hour speed.

After flying for about half an hour so he was flying over a stream of water which has now dried up. Now isn't the time of drought so Alex thought whatever was the cause of this might be a strong pokemon or something interesting.

Alex motioned for Pidgeot to follow the stream to it's origin. After passing they saw many water types lying on small water patches left and some fighting for them.

Alex flew for a few minutes and came across a group of people who stood in front of a large object which obstructed the flow of water .

Alex flew down and people who stood there looked up to see a large pokemon reaching them. They raised whatever stick or objects they could find to defend in case the pokemon attack them.

After Pidgeot landed they saw a young boy sitting with an unknown pokemons. Though they lowered the makeshift weapon they didn't drop it and still remained alert.

An old man among the crowd head towards him and said," Young man who might you be? And what are you doing here?"

" I am Alex Bart from Floral town , who might you be?" He asked

" I am elder Gordon from Leaf village. Nice to meet you. As for what we are doing here, it is related to the dried stream. Why did you come here? " He replied

" I came due to the dried stream too. When I was flying over I saw this dried stream and wanted to see what might cause this after all I don't remember that there was drought anywhere around so I came to check what Happened " Alex replied.

" Is that so?" Gordon then looked at the powerful looking Pidgeot and asked Alex ," So can you help us here?"

All the people gathered here also looked at Alex hopefully. Alex was thinking whether he should interfere in this matter.

" If you help us I will reward you this." Gordon seeing Alex having second thoughts replied.

He took something from his pocket. Alex seeing this was surprised.

Gordon saw this and was satisfied with his reaction," This is a miracle seed and it helps power up grass type moves." he said proudly," If you can help us we will give it to you."

Alex after seeing knew it was a miracle seed. Miracle seed wasn't something too precious and now with his monetary assets Alex could easily buy it. What was shocking about this miracle seed was the amount of power it contains.

After unlocking his aura, Alex has started training according to the mysterious manual. Through this Alex has mastered little aura vision. With it he could feel different powers around himself. Although not completely mastered Alex can sustain it for few seconds but can't use continuously.

He now used the vision on the seed and saw it contains similar level of powers as the excellent quality fire stone Professor Oak gave him. So he knew it would not only help Bulbasaur grow faster but also become more powerful over time.

This is really beneficial for his Bulbasaur. He then composed himself, and said," ok I will do it. So what did you deduce from your search?"

" We investigated and cane across this object and after we found it was a pokemon which blocked the water.

We wanted to move him out of the way but he was very heavy and we can't move it an inch. We even used our pokemons but none of these attacks were of any effect on him."

" Oh and what pokemon blocked the passage?" Alex asked curious.

" It is a Snorlax." Gordon answered helplessly.

Alex eyes widened on hearing it.

" Please help us. We don't want you to catch it but if needed we will even give you a leaf stone too." He said urgently revealing the stone.

His fears are well deserved because even though Snorlax is a very strong pokemon the cost of raising it is astronomical. Many Trainer don't want to raise it in fear of going bankrupt.

But it wasn't the case with Alex, because the mysterious book detailed how to feed super large pokemons like wailord or someone with great appetite like Snorlax.

Also with a Snorlax Alex would have a cover for having orchard of berries. This way he would not have to worry about others affecting his trade at the beginning. This Incident made Alex feel like he was a protagonist whose luck helped him whenever needed.

Alex agreed but only after taking miracle seed and leaf stone and then asked them to move out of the passage of stream.

He then have have Espeon used nightmare, which she learned from Alakazam at the laboratory and he woke up with a loud roar at being disturbed.

" Water prison"

Slowking too was released who smothered the angry Snorlax in water and surrounded it with water. It was a sphere of water surrounding Snorlax.

Snorlax tried to smash out of the prison but continuous harassment from Espeon's psychic blasts stopped all these.

Slowking didn't just let him in water prison but also used sharp water arrows to weaken him.

The combined efforts of Espeon and Slowking started to tire out Snorlax and seeing that he was Slowly losing conscience Alex took out a pokeball which powered by Espeon's psychic hit him and s_u_c_k_e_d him inside.

The pokeball rocked back and forth for some time and then he was successful captured.

The people saw that he took down Snorlax and thanked him for his efforts. they happily started to head for their home.

But The elder Gordon has some thoughts and then asked Alex," Thank you for this young man but could you help us one more time?"

" Don't worry we will reward you handsomely too If you help us." He looked at Alex earnestly

These two things were quite impressive and it was enough to help them in return once more but if he gets another he doesn't mind it." Ok but what your problem?"

" There are few pokemon poachers who steal some of our pokemon eggs from us. We need your help in taking care if them."

" Ok I don't mind." Alex don't fear and if things go worse he can escape in Pidgeot.

" So I as the village chief of leaf town formally contract you to help us with the missing egg mission." Gordon said

Alex now got a Snorlax and will soon face pokemon poachers and a surprising hunter will be in it too who will often face Alex in his journey. so stay tuned

to be continued