RETURNING HOME

Alex has travelled for four months and has gotten three pokemon gym badges which were two two stars and one three star. Giovanni gave him a three star badge. Alex doesn't know what this badge stand for or else he will be really shocked.

A wielder of three star badge can directly qualify for the preliminary of the league tournament. They don't need all eight badges only one three star one is enough. Though issuing it is a long process. For it's issuing, there must be two other gym leaders support or an elite four is needed. And Agatha was present so there wasn't much hassle.

The three older people who know of the badge and it's value didn't mention thinking he knew it's value and Alex never revealed it to others so he never knew.

Alex currently thoughts were that He has to defeat five more and he can easily qualify for the pokemon league. And this isn't much difficult for Alex as of now.

He isn't worried about the league tournament. What he is really worried about is the youth tournament a few years later.

The people whom Professor mentioned were all who will dominate the next generation. Their very existence was a unsurmountable mountain for most yet Alex was regarded as their rival. This brought much pride in himself yet he knew that if he slacked now he will lose and Alex's pride won't allow him to lose to his own generation people easily.

Now Alex is ready to head home. Apparently something happened at home that his siblings called him here and asked him to return home soon.

They were in a hurry so they didn't mention the reason. They were anxious so he decided to head home. Professor Oak was king enough to have his alakazam teleport him to Cerulean city.

From there he would ride his Pidgeot back home. It would only be a few minutes journey back to Floral town at full speed.

His pokemons were fed and were now at the backyard saying farewell to other pokemons.

Alex told Professor that he will send his pokemons at his hometown so that his grandpa can entertain himself while taking care of them.

Professor Oak agreed to it and told that whatever he need he just need to ask and they will be sent to him and not to be shy. He took his backpack and headed to the backyard where his pokemons along with Professor and Daisy stood.

Blue and Red has left last week for some secret work and haven't returned yet. Since they were former champions he knew they weren't weak and since they were needed for the job then it will be highly dangerous for someone his level.

As he came to the backyard, He saw Professor standing there with a quietly sobbing girl Daisy by his side

Seeing Alex she ran towards him , hugged him and said," Do you really have to go? Will you leave me too? Mom and dad left and grandpa is always busy and only you play with me." She said softly crying.

Alex in his time in pallet town knew that there weren't any kids her age around so she get pretty lonely and with Alex arrival, she has a friend and now that he too was leaving she was sad.

Alex getting patted her back to calm her down and then put his hands on her head and bent on his knees reaching her eye level and said," Don't worry Daisy. I will come back to meet you later and I will show you my new pokemons and also tell you about my adventures."

" Rrr. ...eally" She looked at his face with expectations

He raised his pinky and knotted hers too and told," Pinky promise"

" Ok don't break the promise or I will never talk to you." She said as seriously as she could for her age.

Then Alex turned towards Professor who just nodded towards him and Alex thanked the pokemons there for help. Charmeleon hugged his mother goodbye to which his father snorted and then nodded towards him.

Alex quickly returned all his pokemons except Espeon who travel together with him and Haunter who travel with him on his shadows.

He waved goodbye to everyone and then motioned Alakazam to go and soon they were starting to get blurred and soon disappeared from Professor and Daisy's vision.

"So he is really gone?" Daisy said sadly

" Don't worry he will return later. Also why don't I make your favorite Oran berry cake" he tried to cheer her up

Hearing this her eyes brightened and she said," Yeah cake cake cake"

and she headed inside the lab while Oak looked at the sky and thought,' Good luck Alex. I really looking forward to your growth.' and he head inside

Outside the Cerulean city,

Alakazam appeared at the forest surroundings the city along with Alex and his pokemons. Alex thanked him along with Espeon who just nodded and flashed back probably to pallet town.

Alex thought how powerful the Alakazam was to teleport them here so far from pallet town. His young Ralts could only teleport a few metres at most not even reaching ten metres mark and then only for a couple of times and here Alakazam teleported four of them effortlessly a dozen kilometers away.

Alex didn't wait for long and took out the compass on his backpack. According to Professor he will drop him west of Cerulean city so as not to cause problems by his sudden arrival.

Big cities has restriction on directly entering the city by teleport or via flying. These benefits are reserved for top level trainers and gym leaders only.

Not even advanced level can do so. After knowing the direction as his hometown was north of Cerulean he released his Pidgeot.

His Pidgeot under his care and enough nutrition grew twice as big as average Pidgeot. It was nearly 4 metres tall now.

He and Espeon rode on Pidgeot and flew north of Cerulean. The sudden flying Pidgeot attracted the attention of people nearby and thought a big powerful trainer was passing by They then went back to their works.

Alex and his pokemons looked at Cerulean city from outside. It was multiple times bugger than pallet town and was the size if a standard city. It was few kilometers long and covered much area.

After few minutes of flying over the forest , the three saw a small town bigger than pallet town in front of them. It was much smaller than Cerulean city yet on seeing it, Alex was hit by feeling if nostalgia.

He,Alex Bart was returning back home after travelling for few months.

Why Alex was called back home? Stay tuned

to be continued