Maiden’s peak

The next morning Aoki and Misty decided to take a boat to the next city as Misty's Gyarados which was their main means of transport in water was currently out of service.

Surely Pidgeotto due to her size and power could carry Aoki but it would have been very uncomfortable.

The harbor they were supposed to take the boat was about 10km so they decided to use their bicycle.

"Misty, let's take the boat to Maiden's peak, I heard that there would be a festival going to be held from tomorrow" suggested Aoki

"That seems a nice idea. If we take that route we have to go through Flannery City" said Misty.

"I heard that the unofficial gym in that city was going to be converted into an official gym"

"I read that too in my Pokedex, it's going to be a fire-type gym," Aoki said.

Flannery city was one of the cities that went under large transformation in the last last 5 years.

The first reason was that it was near to the coast so there were a lot of business opportunities, the second was the presence of an official fire-type gym, the third was the largest Nurse training center being built there a few years ago.

The official fire-type gym at Cinnabar island rarely takes any gym challenge and the people who challenged the gym refuse to say anything so trainers go to the gym in Flannery city to challenge a fire-type gym leader.

While Aoki was paddling his bike, Clefairy was floating alongside him while trying to create an orb of Fairy-type energy between her palms.

Last night when Misty was sleeping soundly in her tent, Aoki and Clefairy were having a discussion.

"Clefairy you must have observed that when you use moves like a charm, misty terrain, or disarming voice you subconsciously use a different type of energy alongside the normal type of energy."

Clefairy nodded in agreement

"I have observed that your strength has stagnated since we reached Vermillion city"

[yes master, no matter what I did I found that my power would not grow any longer]

"From today onwards forget about any other training and only focus on manifesting that energy by creating an orb-like you do with shadow ball"

[Why master?]

"I call that energy fairy type energy. I think that your main type is fairy due to you using those moves subconsciously. If you can harness that energy that will help you increase your powers"

[You think I am a fairy master?]

"Yes you are a little fairy," Aoki said petting Clefairy as she snuggled against his arm.

"I also have a way to increase the power of shadow ball, normally you just condense a ball of ghost-type energy to attack now try compressing and adding rotation to it

I know these two tasks would be insanely difficult but if you want to become stronger, you have to do it"

[I will do it, master !!]

Back to the present, Aoki and Misty reached the harbor and booked themselves a small speed boat to reach Maiden's peak.

The person who was supposed to take them was an old fisherman who shared some stories about his youth with them. Aoki and Misty were dropped at Maiden's peak after a journey of 1 hour.

Last night Aoki had given professor Oak the footage of the gigantic Lapras diving into the water.

Currently, in the Lab of Professor Oak, three people were having a meeting.

They were Professor Oak, Bill, and the Dragon-type elite trainer and the current champion of the Kanto region Lance.

"So this is the data we have compiled till now, " said Bill as he handed a document to Lance.

Like Bill, Lance has also known professor Oak since he was a child so they had a good relationship.

The matter of their discussion was related to the sighting of the two gigantic pokemon that could seriously affect the environment.

"It seems like Aoki's hollow earth theory is becoming true," said Professor Oak who watched the footage of the Lapras and the island on repeat.

After Aoki and Misty left the lighthouse a few weeks ago, the Dragonite came to visit Bill a few times more before going back to his slumber.

This gave Bill to conduct various research one of which indicated that a special type of energy was present inside Dragonite that allowed him to grow to such a height.

"Most of the things when it comes to Pokemon are related to energy," Oak said.

"The energy released by the Dragonite is somewhat similar to that of the three legendary birds that I collected samples from when Red was in possession of them" Oak pulled out a chart to show the similarity.

"This energy is something that makes a legendary stronger than normal species and their long life"

"Is this what is called life force professor ?" Bill asked.

"Correct, what separates most species of Pokemon from one another is the power of their life force they are born with but the exceptions are pseudo legendaries as they attain their true power at their last evolution."

"I see…."

"Now time for my report, " Lance said attracting the attention of the other two.

There was a private investigation done by Lance with the advice of Oak in which he found that there were several large cracks under the ocean with very high gravitation force and water pressure that would crush even an elite pokemon to a paste or critically injure a champion-level pokemon.

His ace Pokemon was injured during the investigation so the matter had to be taken seriously.

" I think that something big is going to happen for such titans to come to the surface, " said Oak looking outside the window.

" Hope that it doesn't come to that, " said Lance with a grim face while Bill agreed with him.

"No need to tell the elite four about this, keep an eye on team rocket as they seem to have toned down their activity that is not good," Oak said to Lance.