17 Big City Life (1/2)
**** Karl's Perspective ****
I showed my new friends the locations of the Pokémon I could still remember, some of them were already gone, the whole process lasted about an hour.
I didn't walk back towards the Pokécenter with them. Would have been interesting seeing the whole team and girl with her Growlithe again, but I didn't want to run into too many people.
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I already attracted too much attention for my liking.
How things continue was already discussed and the plan set so I didn't really have a need to had back with them, Jake, Richard, and the two brothers seemed a bit down because I didn't go with them but they didn't ask me to do otherwise, so I guess I'm ok.
I lost most of my worries now, which primarily was being hunted down by humans. The Evil Team doesn't seem like a threat, as long as I don't gather too much attention I should be alright. The stronger I get the less dangerous it gets for me. As of now, even the normal Grunts of the Team could probably defeat me.
That's why finding a place to train is a huge deal for me, and now I even get told where I can hunt Pokémon without worrying too much about how the humans react.
I found my way back to the road I already discovered. Richard told me I could find the first Type of Pokémon after crossing through the next city which lies north of here about 5 Kilometers (3,1 Miles) so that's my destination now.
At the moment I'm still surrounded by forest. But I can see the City Skyline in the distance and the End of the forest seems just 400-500 Meters away. Still just like before I'm walking in the forest behind the last line of bushes and trees before the road begins.
[I haven't drunk in a while hopefully I can find a water source at the end of the forest or at least in the city.
You would think fighting strong foes in a new and unknown world would be your main problem but it seems if you don't want to run after some humans, your biggest problem is finding food or water.
Only strong point at the moment is that I can take a leak everywhere I want.
Other problems, for now, seem that I can't talk to Pokémon yet. On the other hand, I guess it helps with hunting, I'm not sure if I could hunt and kill Pokémon if they could talk with me and I'm not even talking about eating yet.
I guess everybody would feel that way.
I believe this means I should find out how Pokéfood tastes, or what it's made of maybe then I could even make it myself.]
I stop walking looking through the treetops in thought.
[Naaah. I guess that's impossible for me...
So how do I get that stuff when I need it in the future?]
I continue walking.
[Maybe I can get the GYM Leaders to give some to me after I defeated them? Instead of money? I really don't need money. Normal trainers are probably difficult, rather then food they will probably try to catch me even after their Pokémon are defeated. If that is even possible. I don't know. In the games, it doesn't work, but this is real life now.
Maybe I can get the Pokémon Wildlife Guys to give some to me after I clear an area? As some sort of payment or something? That seems like a good Idea!]
My deep thought session ends. A car just blasted down the road, well it seemed like it, I guess I still am pretty slow. I want to get faster covering small distances in a „long” time like this sucks.
[being a small Pokémon sucks. I hope I can get taller soon.]
I reach the end of the forest and what lies ahead is a huge gra.s.sland, long gra.s.s that sways in the wind. The dirt road stretches itself to the city with a few bends and curves. The forest seems to have been on some higher ground, right now I walk down into the gra.s.sland. I can see a few willow trees standing alone spread across the gra.s.s plains.
I decide to walk in the high gra.s.s, as it's highly possible that humans can spot me from far away.
Some Pidgeys are flying over my head towards the City.
I continue my walk without interruptions, I believe the city is about a Kilometer away so it won't be long before I get there. An hour if I walk, running would be a lot faster but I'm not sure how fast I can find water so I don't want to take risks.
The weather is perfect a few clouds but mostly clear blue sky, the wind makes the warm temperature bearable. I can hear some Bird Pokémon sing and I even saw a b.u.t.terfree fly by.
None of them were interested in confronting me which makes my life easier. Suddenly I hear voices in the distance, not from the road and neither from the city, there seem to be two kids coming from somewhere in the gra.s.s, from what I can hear it's a girl and a boy. The tall gra.s.s should be able to hide all of my body with ease so I'm not worried about them finding me.
As they draw closer I can hear what they are talking about, they seem to be heading back to the city just where I want to go, so I guess I found my source of entertainment for the journey, as long as I don't walk faster than them.
Boy: ”I and my Crabby are able to fight against two more Pokémon without having to use a Potion now!”
Girl: ”That's impressive, my Rockruff can't even fight against two Pokémon in a row. It will take ages until I will be able to beat the GYM-Leader...”
Boy: ”Don't worry it won't take that long, I just had a 2-week headstart on you.”
Girl: ” I hope that's right, from what I heard we both aren't good against them Pokémon Type the GYM-Leader uses so we have to train extra hard.”
This is the moment where I think to myself, why don't these doofuses just catch different types of Pokémon or hit a different GYM? I doubt there is a real use of VM's if they even exist here and not like People use Pokémon services like in Alola. n.o.body would have needed to cut down a small tree in the real-world only because it's standing on some small dirt path. So reaching other GYM's shouldn't be too difficult. Guessing by them having Water and Rock-Type Pokémon the GYM seems to use Gra.s.s Type Pokémon?
Not that that's of interest for me yet, the PWO-Guys still have to talk with the GYM-Leaders. But if I could hunt and train against some fire, bug or gra.s.s types that would be helpful later on.
Thankfully my first goal is already helpful in that case. It seems that a lot of trainers caught Heatmor's on the hills and mountains on the northern side of the city, in order to battle the GYM Leader in this City. Which lead to the rapid breeding of Durants, of which more than enough survived because their natural enemies are missing.
The dumb thing about it is that Durant's should be as effective against Gra.s.s-types as Fire Pokémon like Heatmor. Maybe I'm missing something here? Is the GYM not a gra.s.s Type GYM? Dammit, I should have asked Richard when I still could. Anyway battling another Bug Type is really tedious.
And this one is bug-steel Type, which is even worse. I don't think I have any Attack yet that is effective against Steel Pokémon. So I will have to be careful of its Bug-Type moves and counter with something to is only of normal effectiveness.
The City isn't that far away anymore, the two kids still ramble on about the GYM and how they can beat it. I stop walking the two seem to be really close. They walk towards the road on my left and come towards me from the right.
”If only there were still some Heatmor's left but those 16 and 17-year-olds all got them first. Flying Types would also be good but they are so hard to fight, most of them just fly away if the battle gets too hard and those that come to fight you first are too strong.”
- says the boy annoyed.
The girl replies sounding a bit unmotivated: ”Well, the ones you can find in the city are useless against them as well, they are a bit too weak and got no type advantage either. Also they are boring, most of them can be found at every corner. In that case, I'm better off with my trained rockruff.”
[This is just stupid, I have to say something. I know I shouldn't but I just can't hold it back.]
”Just go catch Durants they are effective against Gra.s.s Types as well, holy moly I can't believe people try beating GYM Leaders without having at least half their knowledge. Maybe not against Heatmors but they are good enough for beating that GYM.”
[Sh*t, now I did it. Time to haul a** and get the h.e.l.l out of here before they try to find out who said that.]
I try to peak through the gra.s.s, the two kids look confused into my direction.
”Who said that? What the h.e.l.l? Are you hiding?!” - the Boy looks around confused, the girl does the same without saying anything.
[Well, now it's not my problem anymore]