Chapter 28

Chapter 28

I left the land of my dreams to wake up to an empty room. It felt weird not to have any of my pokemon near me, but I understood that they needed a checkup. I slowly climb out of bed and go into the bathroom to take another shower to clean off the sweat from when I was sleeping. I don’t normally sweat when I meditate as it seems to increase the ice energy I produce, but sleeping means no regulation on my energy, causing me to sweat like it is the middle of summer in New Orleans.

While I let the cool water slide across my skin, I start to think over what we need to do while we are in Cerulean City. We need to stock up on our supplies, sign up for the gym, train our new pokemon, win our badge and decide our next stop. There really isn’t much for us in this city besides getting the badge, so it should be a fairly quick stay. I step out of the shower and head over to the desk to grab my phone. I notice that it is hardly two in the morning, yet I am wide awake. I decide to use my two gacha spins to see what items I might get.

[Congratulations host, you have received an Aspear Berry.]

[Congratulations Host, you have received fifty meters of soft silk rope.]

I raise my eyebrow at the fact that I received rope again as the items appear in front of me. On the table in front of me a round yellow fruit with green circles on it appears next to two bundles of rope. One rope is neon green, so bright that I swear that it is glowing, and one a deep black color that seems to absorb light. On the two bundles is a small note. I pick up the note and see that it has some beautiful hand writing on it that says; Rope is only intended for intimate uses. I chuckle at that as someone was not happy that I used the rope to tie up someone that didn’t turn into fun time.

Tossing the note towards the trash, I notice that it dissipates into a flurry of snowflakes once it leaves my hand. That was a cool effect, I wonder if I will be able to do that someday. Glancing at the stuff on the desk, I decide to put it away later and start doing a slow yoga routine. Even though I don’t know everything about yoga, I still remember some of the more basic positions that help improve my flexibility. I set my music player to start playing some lofi music and I start to zone out as I go through my routine. I don’t feel like training today as we just arrived in the city so it should be a day of fun.

It’s not long before I spot the fire-red hair of Flannery coming out of the stairwell, followed by Bea. The pair see me and wave before heading to the counter with Nurse Joy to retrieve their pokemon as well. They soon join me at the table and we talk about what our plans are for the city. We all agree that besides the gym battle, there really isn’t much to attract our attention. After we register for our battles today, we will walk around to see what we find. We get up after we finish our breakfast and head out of the pokecenter to the next most prominent structure of the city.

The pokecenter we chose is the closest one to the actual gym itself so it didn’t take long before we reached a circular white building decorated with all sorts of water type pokemon and underwater flora. It honestly reminds me of an aquarium, especially because the windows that are visible hold all sorts of underwater flora and fauna as well as some of the more peaceful species of water type pokemon.

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We find the line for registration and quickly join it. The line moves quickly as registering for a battle doesn’t take long. The three of us decided to have our battles all on the same day, one right after the other. This would make it so we couldn’t watch each other battle, as we would not be able to get into the stands quick enough, but it would also lower the time we would need to spend here before we head off to the next city.

When we reach the counter, our registration takes no time at all as I don’t have an issue with any of my pokemon and I already registered once before. All they need to do is scan my Trainer ID and tell them how many pokemon are going to fight. We were able to get back to back timeslots two days from now as everything before that was all booked up.

Once we all register, we head out of the mass of people surrounding the gym and decide to explore the city. While we walk around we do some window shopping to see if anything catches our eye. Besides everything being water themed, there really isn’t anything special about the wares in the city. None of the water themed items give me the same tug that winter or snow themed items do. The three of us chat quietly as we walk along and explore the city.