Chapter 22

Somewhere in the forest, a young man and an oversized bat are running through the heavy rain. "It seems like it won't stop any time soon, Zubat can you sense a shelter near here." said Jack but zubat shakes his head so he has no choice but to keep going.

Traveling in rain when you are in the wild is very dangerous because the sound of rain can cover sound of the predator approaching especially for zubat who relies on sound to detect surroundings. So Jack does not want to risk it but he knows where to go. During in this kind of weather, the safest place is always is opposite to what people thought and most dangerous place is where you think the safest. Near the stream is currently the safest because when there is rain, many water pokemons come out of stream or river, which include stronger ones and no other pokemons provoke them during heavy rain. So the danger when near the stream is only in one direction a lot better than when you have no idea where the danger will be coming from. Also, you can avoid water pokemons by climbing the tree, while shelter is the most dangerous.

Most of the pokemons will go to those places and there is always a fight for space. The reason Jack let zubat search for shelter is in order to go opposite direction. When Jake got near the stream, it is already becomes the size of river and keep rising. Many water pokemons are also coming out of the water. Jack climb the biggest tree with zubat near it. As the rain gets worse, Jack looks at the direction of the river hoping to find some rare pokemon with good aptitude. That is also another reason to come near streams.

Many water types with groups coming out of the stream to play. All of them of common pokemons you can found like Kingler, Crawdaunt, Azumaril, Quagsire, lombre and so on. With a glance, Jack realize Kingler and Crawdaunt probably are the strongest among them because they have largest group and other pokemons seems scare of them. Jack is far away so he cannot check their information but their levels is at the very least around 40. Jack lost interest after seeing them because there is not any pokemon he wants. Just when he was about to give up, he heard the roar coming from the other end of the river.

"Shit, that is the roar of Gyarados. I hope there won't be a fight! Zubat ready to use protect any time." Jack said worriedly. If high level pokemons fight the surrounding would becomes a mess. Not long after hearing a sound, Jack saw a silhouette of Gyarados. Jack saw many Gyarados in previous life and this one is among the bigger one which means his level is also high. At this time, the boss of Kingler and Crawdaunt also roar, warning Gyarados to get out of their territory.

Seeing that Jack knows there is gonna be a fight because Gyarados are very aggressive yet prideful species so they will not back down unless you are a lot stronger. Just as he thought, when Gyarados heard their warning he response them with a big orange light from his mouth.

"Shit, it is fucking hyper beam, this fucker is too aggressive, zubat use protect." Jack quickly ordered for zubat. Jack got surprised only pokemon like Gyarados response other warning with Hyper beam.

Seeing the hyper beam coming, both kingler and Crawdaunt use protect. They both learn protect naturally which means it is a lot stronger than when learnt by a TMs. Even that is hard to withstand the full force of hyper beam alone. That is why both pokemon joined force.

When the orange light beam come in to contact with two green shield, a huge explosion occurred. The impact is so great that even nearby trees are blown away due to the force. Luckily Jack is further away but he will be blown away from the tree if not for zubat protect. Even he can still feel a strong wind from the explosion here so it Jack is very curious about the two pokemons which are the actual targets.

Surprisingly, both pokemon held on only with some light injuries. Jack knows that their protect move must have reach elite level at the least to withstand that kind of power. Right now both pokemons are very angry because many pokemons of their groups are blown away by the impact. There are even some casualties. Seeing their clansman die, they are even more angry and their eyes are filled with killing intent. After using hyper beam of that caliber Gyarados cannot move, seeing this opportunity both crab jump and use crab hammer. They both hit the head of Gyarados who cannot move.

Gyarados got hurt pretty bad after getting hit by two crab hammers. But due to rage, he does not care and use twister. Both crabs does not meet head on with Gyarados and lure him further away from their clansmen.

Seeing those pokemons move further and further, Jack signed in relieved. He does not even notice the rain stopped. When he got back down from the tree, he saw many pokemons on the shore. They are mostly magikarp. The last move, twister used by Gyarados must have caused this because this an area effect move. There are even goldeen and barboach mixed with them.

Among those pokemons, there are also green aptitude ones. So Jack decided to catch them to sell. Jack also need one water type pokemon to travel in water. It is one of essential types of pokemon because Flying pokemon can't travel through the sea because there is no place to rest. Although there are boats, there possibility of crashing is now low. Jack has heard many news of boats and ships being attacked by pokemons.

Jack caught, 5 goldeen of green aptitude and 2 deep green. Barboach are rarer pokemon so Jack cannot find any deep green ones so he only caught 3 normal green aptitude and 1 light green aptitude.

As for Magikarp, Jack ignores it because not every Magikarp can evolve to Gyarados if it is not light blue. So few people is willing to bet and buy magikarp. They will only buy Gyarados directly. Although Jack is confident in training Magikarp to evolve, he don't like overly aggressive pokemon.

Without finding a suitable pokemon, Jack decide/ to leave. At this moment he saw something that caught his eyes not far from him. They are also a group of water type pokemon blown away by Twister.