Ch26- Easy battle and a Chance

I came out after getting changed and stood on the ring. I released Riolu out

"Riolu I will try to stall for time, so be as fast as you can to beat the Pokemon you will face against, ok?"

"Riolu lu"

"Now, let's start."

My opponent came and stood ahead, he was a thin man with a bald head, he had a big moustache which was very awkward to look at because of his bald head. I get closer to him and give a handshake as a courtesy. There was also a referee for this match, Cynthia was on the other ring which was adjacent to us. She looked more confident than me. I guess she is an allrounder in everything, which makes me crush on her even more.

'Ting...Ting....Tinggggggg'

I got ready for my match, the bell rang three times indicating to start the match.

We got in our position, he released a Hitmontop. Good, the opponent won't have a height advantage against Riolu. As

I was thinking about it, I see a punch coming for me

'Shit Shit, why am I spacing out all the time, this bad habit of mine is going to make me lose my teeth.'

'Bang'

I fell face flat and was in tremendous pain, the referee was asking if I am in the right mind to continue, everything looked blurry. 'Talk about stalling for time and all... hahaha', I laughed at my stupidity.

I get up and tell the referee, "I am fine and ready to continue."

If gazes could kill then the opponent would have died hundred times over, Riolu was mad as hell and I think that hitmontop would be on the hospital bed now.

Riolu used the opportunity of the time that Hitmontop was paying attention to me because of my sudden unexpected fall. She gave an uppercut on the jaw and then a kick on the side of the head. Hitmontop never expected the sudden outburst and he fell face flat just like me.

Everyone were shocked and all there gazes fell on me, wait...don't tell me they are thinking this was a plan of mine. The head of the Dojo came with a face full of anger

"Young man, you need to fight like a man. Instead you took the hit standing ideally and then distracted everyone with your unexpected fall so that your Pokemon could win. It's just cheap and a disgrace to all the trainers here."

"What???? No, you all have misunderstood. I have a bad habit of spacing out and that's the reason for not able to see the hit coming, the moment I spaced out, I was hit. It seriously is not a plan."

"Young man, I am the head and I don't actually train the trainers. I always give those tasks to my subordinates, but as our rule stated that anyone who wins against my subordinates will be trained, I can't kick you out. No matter if it's a cheap trick or misunderstanding, your win is a cheap win. I will show you how a hell looks like for the next two weeks. You will be personally trained by me and I won't even give you the time to breathe."

'Luck God, you are the best. Even during the worst times, you give me the best chance possible.'

To be trained by a former gym leader is a blessing in disguise. I don't care if he will make it too hard, I don't want to let any chance to improve pass by.

"No problem Boss, I am in your care. Please train me as hard as you can."

Then I heard a sound from the side indicating Cynthia as the winner. I am happy that she did not watch my match, it would be embarrassing.

"Come back tomorrow to start your training, it will take at least 10 days and the highest being a month. You need to pay upfront for one month or ten days, and the moves for your Pokemon will be given at the counter."

"Yes Boss, see you tomorrow."

Cynthia also came with me to pay at the counter, I paid for two weeks worth of training and she too did the same. The guy at the counter gave us a list to select from.

Moves that can be taught:

PUNCH Moves KICK Moves

1.Focus Punch. 1.Double Kick

2.Ice Punch. 2.High Jump Kick

3.Thunder Punch. 3.Low sweep

4.Shadow Punch. 4.Jump Kick

5.Dizzy Punch. 5.Blaze kick

6.Comet Punch. 6.Mega Kick

7.Drain Punch. 7.Low Kick

8. Sucker Punch. 8.Triple Kick

9. Power-up Punch. 9.Trop Kick

10. Fire Punch. 10.Rolling Kick

CLAW Moves. SLASH and CUT Moves

1.Crush Claw. 1.Slash

2.Dragon Claw. 2. Night Slash

3.Metal Claw. 3.Cut

4.Hone Claw. 4. Pscyco Cut

5.Shadow Claw. 5. Sky Uppercut

After looking at that, I felt like staying in the Dojo forever.

"Cynthia, you said you will challenge the other two gyms later right? Why not now? because I read in a book from Prof.Oak's lab that pewter gym and Cerulean can only be challenged before the trainer gets five gym badges. I have no problem in waiting for you. I will stay here and train, you can finish your gym matches and come back. If nothing goes wrong, you will able to complete it in two months. How about it?"

She looked at me with a startled face

"Why do I feel like there's something fishy, you are never this nice and you always do things only if there is some profit. Give me the list here, I think there's something in there which made you do this."

She plucked the list out of my hand and saw what's on it, then she was shifting gazes between me and the list. After some time she started talking,

"No wonder you wanted to stay here, although it's not surprising for them to teach so many moves but there's also something suspicious, they have around twenty trainers and each can teach one I guess. But, I remember them telling to pick only one move, how are you going to convince them?"

"Hehe...you don't need to worry, I will use my influence, like recommendation from Prof.Oak or challenge them repeatedly for a match or teach them bullet punch in exchange for a move. If nothing works then I will go for the ultimate, that is to fall on Boss's feet and beg him."

She started laughing after hearing about me falling on feet and beg,

"You are really shameless, you will do anything to become strong huh?"

"No, nothing like that. Think about it, you are from a clan, so you will have privileges to learn any moves you want but for people like me, it's very tough to come across a chance like this. Also, you can get the two badges from Kanto, we can be on equal terms and challenge Surge, not to talk about our mock battles. If I really succeed in convincing the dojo to teach me more moves, maybe I will teach one move for free to your Pokemon."

After the mention of mock battles and a free move, she was convinced

"Deal, after two weeks I will go and get the two badges, I think the clan will give me a reply by then."

Yes, now time to coax the Dojo Boss. I am sure he won't accept just by teaching a bullet punch, I need to ask Prof.Oak and over that, I also need to pay money and over top of all these, I need to beg him.

Next two weeks, I need to keep pestering him. There are so many moves on the list that can help everyone in my team. I can make Kirlia learn Thunder punch, I know it's useless on her but she can learn thunder wave after learning to generate electric type energy. She can teach it to anyone on the team after they fully evolve. Riolu can learn almost ten moves over there, Scyther and Gible also have their options. Shit, I feel like I can stay here for a year. I also know that I can at maximum convince the dojo to teach five or six moves.

But my main question is, how come they have so many moves to teach and some are not even related to fighting type or their dojo. I need to ask the Boss about the real reason behind these, they are actually costly too. I had to pay 10,000 poke dollars for mine and Pokemon's training.

Time to go and talk to Prof.Oak about everything that has happened recently.

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x----Chapter End----x

Fun Fact:

Splash is the useless Pokemon move that performs almost no action whatsoever and can be learnt by very few creatures, the most obvious of which being Magikarp. However, despite its name, the move is actually a Normal-type, rather than a Water-type move, and can be learnt by Pokemon such as Hoppop, Bounsweet, Spoink, Cleffa, Wynaut, Mimikyu, Cosmog and Buneary. This is because the Japanese version of the word was mistranslated and should in fact be called 'Hop', which makes much more sense.