239 Chapter 28 Meeting an old friend (1/2)

Two days later,

Alex is currently at the pier of the Vermillion Port with his Pokemons Pikachu, Swablu and Dratini with Gengar in the Shadow and Espeon who has also decided to join them.

Alex has noticed the mischievous group giving too many sinister smiles in the past two days, so to curtail their enthusiasm from spreading to others, he called back his Espeon.

He has heard some frustrated screams of Elsa and Julius from time to time which confirmed they are up to no good these past few days.

At least with her around, they will not act too rashly and behave themselves.

When Espeon joined them in the past, the first thing she did was let Dratini and Horsea understand some basic things about the group and the do's and don't of the group.

The things such as what pokemon cannot be angered, who can bear some teasing but if you anger him, you will suffer and noone will rescue them, for example, snorlax and his food cannot be disturbed.

Back to present, Alex looks at the massive cruise in front of him.

S S Smith is a whole 260 meters in lengths, and breadth of 47 meters (154 ft), the passenger cruise ship tonnage is of 200,300 tons, and max crew-passenger capacity of almost 7,500.

Looking at the behemoth in front of him, Alex remember how small he really was.

Of course his Gyarados was at least half as long as how wide the ship was. This also reminds him of the biggest Pokemon, Wailord.

Although they are almost as tall as Gyarados, they are much wider and longer than an average gyarados.

With a Wailord, one doesn't have to worry about a sudden whirlpool or a heavy storm in the sea, for the blue whale behemoth could handle everything just fine.

While Alex was dreaming about owning a Wailord,( ignoring how the fact that one time feeding may turn him bankrupt), a sudden call brought him out of his thoughts,” Alex.”

Alex turns to the source, it was a handsome green haired boy who was only a few years older than him. It was his old friend, Bill Montenegro.

Alex asked his old friend surprised,”Bill, what are you doing here?”

Bill grins and said,” What am I doing? I thought you were going to participate in the tournament my company was going to organize a month later, but look what you are doing? So where are you going? Can you return back to Kanto in time for the match?”

Bill fires his questions quickly at the young trainer, but he has yet to give him a chance to speak so Alex just smiles softly and waits for Bill to stop.

But it doesn't seem like he is going to stop anytime soon, but Espeon solves that problem, as she swept her tail at Bill making him fall on the ground.

This makes Bill turn to the one who swept him to the ground,he doesn't seem bothered by Espeon's action and simply said,” Hello to you too, Espeon. You have grown more beautiful since the last time I met you.” He tried to sweet talk Espeon and it seems to be working as how she just looked at him and bathe in his praise.

Alex just shook his head and thought,' No matter whether it is a pokemon or human, all the women just love being praised.'

” What are you doing here, Bill?”Alex asked his fallen friend while extending his hands towards Bill.

Bill took his hands and rises to his feet. He pats off the dust from his clothes and says,” What I am doing here? What about the tournament a month later. It seems like you are going somewhere. And, it is a pretty long Trip with the amount of luggage you carry. ” As he looks at the suitcase along with the thick backpack on his back.

Alex just smiled, ” Sorry. Old man is sending me for some ruin exploration in Hoenn region. So most probably I cannot take part in that tournament.”

Of course Bill doesn't like the refusal and shouted,” Do you have any idea how much it cost me, to organize a tournament in the cruise ship?”

Alex was in dilemma since Bill was never one for monetary wealth, he is more of a scientist than a businessman, so his current behaviour was confusing.

” What do you mean?” Alex asked his friend while the pokemons just looked at the comedy man in front of them with mirth.

They made snide comments about him to each other and laughed.

” What do I mean? When you asked about any tournament taking place among the Rookie trainers, I specially decided to do one for you on S S Victoria a month later.

Do you know how difficult it was for me? My father made me do all the paperwork, permission as well as arrangement for that damm tournament you wanted.