BXBX NOVEL Chapter 552: An Opportunity
Chapter 552: An Opportunity
He first looked at its stats:
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Pokemon\'s name: Riolu (Age- 4 months)
Pokemon Nickname: NA
Pokemon Rank: common rank
Pokemon type: Fighting
Ability: Inner focus (20%)
Hidden ability: Prankster (15%)
Potential: Black (Monstrous)
Health: 700/700 Attack: C+
Agility: C++ Defense: C
Sp. Atk: D Sp. Def: D++
Moves:
Active moves: Detect, Vacuum wave, Mind reader, Bullet punch, High jump kick, Sword dance
Passive move: Aeus energy
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For a 4-month-old wild Pokemon, it had very impressive stats. Its agility was C++ rank which was very good. It had also learned some moves and all of them were practical. Axel had expected it to learn some aura-type moves but that could not be seen.
That was not a problem for Axel as he could teach it. It was only 4 months old, so it was perfect to catch.
Axel went near to Lucario and asked it if it wanted to join him. Lucario happily agreed. It could feel that this human was not so simple and it could get powerful with this human.
Axel threw out a master ball and caught Lucario.
He then saw its stats again. This time, the level of moves was also described.
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Pokemon\'s name: Riolu (Age- 4 months)
Pokemon Nickname: NA
Pokemon Rank: common rank
Pokemon type: Fighting
Ability: Inner focus (20%)
Hidden ability: Prankster (15%)
Potential: Black (Monstrous)
Health: 700/700 Attack: C+
Agility: C++ Defense: C
Sp. Atk: D Sp. Def: D++
Moves:
Active moves: Detect (U) (Lvl 13), Vacuum wave (Lvl 8), Mind reader (U) (Lvl 12), Bullet punch (Lvl 9), High jump kick (u) (Lvl 12), Sword dance (Lvl 8)
Passive move: Aeus energy
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Others also started to choose their Pokemon. Meanwhile, Axel called out all of his Pokemons to introduce Riolu.
The older Pokemons were happy to have a new young team member. Shedinja and Alakazam could feel that Axel valued Riolu much more than normal Pokemon that he captured. Shedinja had also heard about the story of Lucario. So, it thought to give it more protection than others.
Togetic directly introduced itself as the leader of their small gang. It said that Riolu should follow its every command. Poor Riolu was very innocent and it immediately agreed. Axel could only laugh looking at the scene.
Bagon was still the youngest of the group, so all of the young gangs were very protective of it. Now, Riolu the second youngest had come up.
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It was already night and Riolu was getting to know its new team members. Togetic did a good job and introduced Riolu to everyone. It was taking the job of the leader very seriously.
Togetic knew that it could not be as powerful as the older Pokemons, so it had made a decision that it would be the most powerful among the newer Pokemon. Till now it was the strongest of the younger Pokemons.
Gogoat was sitting near Axel and both of them were looking at Riolu and Togetic.
"Gogoat, don\'t you think that this environment, this feeling is very precious?", asked Axel.
"Yes, it is."
"I want to protect their happiness and their innocence as long as I can. Gogoat, I know that you don\'t have any desire to get stronger. I know that you are not competitive like Charles and Marcus. I cannot force you to train hard and get stronger. It would not work in the long run.
So, I want you to be the guardian of these Pokemons. When the time comes, you will have to protect them with everything you have. Do you want to take that responsibility?", asked Axel.
Gogoat looked at its team members. It was one of the oldest Pokemon on Axel\'s team and it was very mature. It had seen this family grow larger and larger. It loved to be a part of this family. However, now it didn\'t have any desire to get stronger. It had already taken its revenge.
Charizard was closest to Gogoat. Charizard regarded Gogoat as its mother and Axel as its father. These young Pokemons were also very close to it. They would drink its milk, so it had some sort of a connection with them. So, yes, it did want to protect them.
"What are you asking of me, Axel?"
"I don\'t want you to fight in gym battles. I don\'t want you to fight in the tide. But you would have to protect these Pokemons at the time of need. I won\'t be here always and even if I am here, I may not be able to protect all of them. Our family will start to grow larger and larger. I already have Shedinja as the knight but now I want a guardian too."
Gogoat looked at the Pokemons and then at Axel and said, "I will do it. I will protect our little family."
"Good, if you want to protect our family, you will have to grow stronger. You cannot sit here lazying around."
"I know that. I will start to train from tomorrow."
It looked like Axel had finally convinced Gogoat to train. Axel was true to his word. He would not let Gogoat fight in gym battles or in tide battles. Gogoat would just defend and protect his Pokemons.
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Next day,
They said their goodbyes to Lucario and the other Pokemons.
"Axel, try to keep our conversation as confidential as possible. You can tell those people who you trust but not others.", said Lucario.
"Can you tell us the reason for it?", asked Lance.
"Humans are very greedy and all of them could not be trusted. I want all of you to master the aura and psychic and come here to me to train in grand energy. If you were to make this place public, this place might stand here very long."
Axel and the group nodded their head in understanding. They also knew the greed of humans. If they were to find out about the history of Lucario, they would certainly come here for their own benefits.
"I will make sure of it.", said Axel and shook its hand.
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It had been 3 days since they left the place. It was easier to reach the center than before cause they had already been used to the dense aeus energy around them.
They also didn\'t have to face any dangers along the way.
"Axel, how are we going to deal with this? The league said that we have to share all the information with them. As per the agreement, we will have to share all the conversation with Lucario and also these training manuals.", asked Kate.
"That certainly is an issue now. Lucario said to keep it a secret and quite frankly, I also don\'t want to reveal it. But the league is going to ask us about the north side. We have to tell them something.", said Ryker too.
"I don\'t think that we have to share anything.", said Axel and picked up the stone from the bag. This was the golden stone that they had received from Lucario. It was a training manual. Axel didn\'t know how it worked and he didn\'t have the time to experiment with it right now.
Even though the stone was big, It was not very heavy. So, Axel told Lance to hold his stone. Lance was confused but he did as he was told. When Lance took hold of the stone, something amazing happened.
The text on the stone that was written immediately disappeared. It was still a golden stone where were no carvings of text on it. Lance then looked at his own stone and it still had text on it. What was going on?
"I suspected that it would happen. That Lucario is very crafty.", said Axel.
"Can you tell us, what is going on?", asked Lance.
"Yes, these stones only recognize our aura signatures. So, when you touched my stone, it was sort of deactivated. It now just looks like a normal stone."
"I don\'t know how this Lucario could make something like this.", commented Frank.
"Yes, this might be one of the uses of grand energy.", said Kate.
"So, for now, we will just exchange our stones with others and make it look normal. When the league searches our bags, they will only find golden stones.
We can just say that the stone looked fascinating, so we each picked it up.", said Axel.
When they come to the center, the league would obviously search their belongings. They could not hide anything. It was a routine procedure. So, if they saw glowing golden stones with cravings, they were obviously going to ask for it.
"Axel, we have another problem.", said Kate.
"Oh, what is it?", asked Axel.
"The north side is very mysterious. The league knows that since we have gone there, we will find something interesting. If we go and say that we found nothing, the league would definitely suspect us.", said Kate.
That was a valid point. They must show something that was not so precious but also something interesting.
"Then, let us tell them some truths so that swallowing the lie would be easier.", said Axel.
"We would tell them about the Shiinotics and also about the huge dragon statue that we discovered. Then we will say that the Shiinotics were too powerful for us to fight and we had to back down. We will also say that we were critically injured, so it took us some much time to return.", said Axel.
"No way. I don\'t want to reveal my family treasures to them. One of these day, they will surely find that and might also claim it.", shouted Lance. Why was Axel targeting his resource place? Axel had 3 of them. Can\'t he choose his own place for it?
"Listen to me first. Let me talk to Lucario and tell them to increase the defense of Shiinotics and also tell the dragon-type Pokemons to be ready for battle.
Kanto region only has a few years on this island. They will not be able to uncover any of it.", said Axel.
"Can you talk to that Lucario right now? We are very far from it.", said Lance.
"Lance, you are very innocent. That Lucario is a god-rank Pokemon. It has full control of this island. Do you really that it cannot talk to us if it wants?", asked Axel.
He then sat down closed his eyes and used \'Aura sense\'. He then tried to find out the aura signature of Lucario and surprisingly, it was found and Lucario actually spoke to his mind.
That was an aura Pokemon who also had mastery of grand energy. It was not very hard to communicate with it.
Axel told their plans and Lucario immediately agreed. Now, they don\'t have any problems.
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When Axel and the group returned to the center, they were escorted for a bag check. Naturally, they only found some gold stones and nothing else. The teleportation paper was very easy to hide as it was just one sheet of paper.
After that, they went to their room and got ready. They went to the restaurant and had a big dinner. It was already night when they returned but Harry wanted to know about the north side. So, they were immediately called to this office.
Axel and the group said that they were very tired and they would report tomorrow but their request was denied. Finally, they reached Harry\'s office.
"Hello, friends. So, how was the journey to the north side?", asked Harry with a smile on his face.