Chapter 118 - Defects of Alex's training

Alex has reached the ground floor by 3:50 with ten minutes to spare and finds that his two friends had already reached there and has waited for him.

Bill and Daniel too saw his arrival but with his Espeon instead of his earlier released Haunter which made them curious but Bill managed to calm his curiousity and immediately targeted Alex for making them wait and said," Where were you? Did you know how long we waited for you? Didn't you say you will only go to fifth floor and not higher?"

The mention of fifth floor and the higher floor made the group of trio the center of attraction for the all the other occupants of the lobby and they wished to know whether they heard it right or it was just an exaggeration.

To think that a ten year old could go to higher levels of the Pokemon Tower while most are restricted to the two floors their entire lifetime.

Bill was ignorant of the stares but Daniel and Alex noticed them and they secretly made decision of leaving soon and what to do so as not to attract much more attention to themselves.

Alex answered his questions," We agreed to meet her at 4 and I reached ten minutes earlier so I am not late. Both you and Daniel were early. As for what I was doing, I was looking around the tower. After a of not for Daniel being the grandson of Willow the gym leader of lavender town, I won't be able to visit the higher levels."

Alex stressed at the words, such as ' Daniel' , ' gym leader' and ' higher level's to alert bill on the secret being kept among themselves.

Bill sometimes has lie EQ ( Emotional Quotient) but he was still a genius and a socially active one at that so he picked up the hint and joined Alex," yeah sorry. I was just very excited and a little scared if you would be safe up there. "

Seeing that bill caught up Alex replied rubbing Espeon head," I have Espeon with me and I wasn't going for a fight but just going for some sight seeing so I didn't have any problem out there."

Espeon just relished on her partners warm hands and enjoyed herself.

They then left the tower while the other surrounding people heard and talked among themselves.

" So they were Daniel's friends. Now I know how they went to the fifth floor."

" Indeed if so then they can really go there."

" Who is this Daniel?" An unknowning man asked

" He is the grandson of lavender town gym leader. He is a very strong trainer. He is also one of the top trainer in Kanto in the younger generation. " Someone explained

The trio had left the pokemon town and didn't bother for the talks or gossips of the left out crowd. After leaving, bill immediately asked," what happened to Haunter? Didn't he leave with you?"

" Haunter is now sleeping. He got hit by group hypnosis of Haunter. So he is knocked out ."

" So you faced Haunter up there. What did you do to make them angry?" Daniel asked joking

" I just wanted to train him in ghost moves against other ghost types. So I fought them."

" And what do you find in that battle?" Daniel asked curious about his view.

" My Haunter's ghost moves are only slight above average because of his higher power but he lacks in their proficiency. It seems I have to go back to the basics of them.

Slowking had done basics while my new ones got into advance training a bit early. If not for me giving them good nutritional food to eat then there might be case of their growth being stunted.

They are still young and so I thought I would only let them have a glimpse of elemental power in primary form, slight change in intermediate and truly learn to control in their final form.

This way their body can hold onto the raw power of the elements without problem. " He explained

" Good to see you found out yourself. My grandpa told me about the dangers of early mastery of the raw elemental power so I stopped the training on it until I got my grandpa permission.

I too was gonna warn you if I see your other pokemons getting into it, but it seems you already did it."

Alex was sad because the only advantage he had over the other trainers of same generation was also harmful for his own pokemons. He had to reluctantly give up at least he have Pidgeot, Slowking and even butterfree to train in it.

" So elemental attack is dangerous?"

" Not dangerous but uncontrollable for the most part. It need a strong body and mind to completely control it.

Did you know that not even elite four could completely control the elements and most are at 40-50% of control.

This is how tough the training is. "Daniel explained and Bill heard intently.

Meanwhile Alex heard something in the words of Daniel which sparked his interest. He thought,' strong body is it. I know what I have to do now.'

He now found a way around the problem. His electabuzz is not at his final form, Electrivire but at his intermediate form yet his control of element is better than even Slowking and Pidgeot so he felt that a strong body is also needed for it.

So among his pokemons Piloswine has physical powers similar to electabuzz so he may be approved for this. He can also set up a minimum strength threshold for those who can learn it

After that he happily went with his friends and returned to the pokemon centre for healing Haunter. He felt this way he could also rest because he always followed him and protected him from the shadows.

The trio had the a joint dinner since Alex told them he would head off for the Saffron city soon for the pokemon gym battle and get his eight badges as soon as possible.

And Bill too was heading back later as his father will be sending people to bring him back so they enjoyed the company of each other and then went off to sleep.

Today Haunter didn't stay with Alex so Espeon along with Pichu decided to accompany him.

At midnight in Alex room in Pokemon center,

In the night when Alex was sleeping two short shadows sneaked inside softly so as not to warn the sleeping people

Soon they were s_u_c_k_e_d up and captured accidentally. The flash of light from capture awoke Espeon who looked around and also scanned the room with her psychic to search for anything out of ordinary

Seeing nothing, she went to sleep herself by the side of Alex.

Two unknown pokemons are captured. Who might they be? Stay tuned

to be continued