Misty's new friend

A few hours back….

While Aoki was buying things from the black market, Misty went to the lake training ground to train her Pokemon.

Before that, she made sure to explore every inch of the house they were living in as it had a high sentimental value for Aoki.

Of course, she explored after taking his permission. She even found a secret basement where a lot of broken test tubes and machines were kept.

It was the place where Aoki's interest in research started as his grandfather did that as a hobby.

She really wanted to meet Aoki's grandparents but unfortunately, they passed away long ago. She had never met her grandparents as his father and mother were orphans since childhood while her other mother's parents had passed away before she was born.

After exploring, she went out to do her work.

As Saffron City was very large, there were several training areas designated for trainers that could be used after paying some money.

The lake area was a good place to train her water Pokemons.

She called out everyone except Gyarados as it might disturb people due to her size.

'I have to say the lake is pretty large to be inside a city' Misty thought while looking at the large lake with many trainers and Pokemon.

Before coming to the park, she asked around the Pokemon center for the services and various facilities in the city.

First was the tallest building in the city belonging to the headquarters of Silph.Co which was the largest company in the Kanto region that sold Pokeballs, camping kits, and spatial bags that everyone carried around.

The official Saffron Gym with the gym leader Sabrina was the next interesting place.

Her gym was also the training center for people who had psychic powers.

'If I had psychic powers I would have wished to learn from her too'.

There was a Pokemon school in the city that gave out trainer licenses and had more courses than the one Aoki and Misty get their IDs from.

Then was the unofficial Gym, called the Champ Dojo which was more of a martial arts Dojo for Pokemon and trainers rather than a gym.

Every trainer could buy a course of seven days for fees and if they won the badge on the first try, the fees would be less.

The most exciting place for her was the battle club.

She had been to a smaller battle club before where trainers are free to battle each other while betting money.

It is similar to a standard trainer battle but the difference was that there were other people who could bet on a specific trainer and win money.

It was easier than the normal battle club as a person doesn't have to go out of their way to find a trainer to battle.

Misty trained her Pokemon for a few hours before taking a break under a shed.

Her Psyduck was showing improvements as she had started teaching him emotion control to intensify and reduce the headache.

She found that Psyduck had very good mastery over psybeam and ice beam.

It was very difficult to train a Psyduck so she had decided to evolve him to Golduck first and then train him harder.

As it was the summer season, the Sun rays were too hot for her to train comfortably, making her sweat very much and attracting a lot of states from trainers.

If that was not enough, a lot of trainers approached her trying to hit her or interrupt her training so she released her Gyarados, making people leave her alone.

"Finally lunchtime! "

As she was having her lunch after giving her Pokemons their food, along blueish-green-haired woman sat beside her.

Based on her facial features she was around 22.

"You don't mind if I sit here right? " the woman asked.

"Sure no problem, I am Misty by the way, " Misty said

"I am Suzie, nice to meet you, " The woman said.

"You don't mind if I keep my Gyarados out right ?" Misty asked

"No no is fine. If you can control a Gyarados you must be a very good trainer" Suzie said.

Misty asked if Suzie was perhaps a trainer to which Suzie replied that she was a Pokemon Breeder and Groomer...

Misty felt like she had seen the woman before.

'A groomer….so she is like Brock'

Suzie told that she had a Parlour at Scissor Streets and had some to Saffron City to get ger certificate for a course.

Misty remembered Scissor street was a city after Celedon city famous for its fashion centers and clothes shops.

Suzie took out three Pokeballs and released a Vulpix, a Poliwrath, and a Politoed.

Her Politoed. and Misty's Politoed saw each other and did a small dance of greeting making them laugh.

Misty was surprised to see she had Politoed too.

The Vulpix didn't interact with anyone and lay down on Suzie's lap closing its eyes.

"Hey, Suzie, if you don't mind, can you tell me where you got your Politoed from?"

"Sure I don't mind..

You know my profession right so I searched for Pokemons to help me with those.

While I was traveling, I found a community of Poliwags by a river and Poliwhirls.

I wanted a Poliwrath to help me with messages and cooking so I offered them a lot of food in exchange for two of them coming with me.

It was a coincidence that I saw the news about the new evolutions of Slowpoke and Poliwhirl so I decided to get one. So I decided to get one Politoed and one Poliwhirl.

I immediately ransacked the market and finally found a king's rock after paying a lot of money and returned to the Poliwag community to get the evolution done. " Suzie said.

Suzie looked at her Pokemon and found that they were very healthy. Suzie asked if Misty was a groomer too seeing the condition of her Pokemon to which she replied that her boyfriend taught her those techniques and made food that her Pokemons were eating.

She was surprised to hear such things about a trainer. Hearing the name Aoki, she was a bit surprised.

Misty made Suzie eat some of the food, making her eyes widen at the taste. She had eaten such food before.

"Did you meet him before Suzie? " Misty asked

"No, a month ago I was in Flannery city and saw a gym battle between him and the gym leader. I was amazed by the power of his Pokemon." Suzie said.

"Ohh I was in that stadium too to cheer for him, " Misty said.

Misty found Suzie a very amusing girl and talked some more about pokemon, grooming, massage techniques, and dreams.

Misty learned that Suzie was a second-class groomer and had won many trophies in breeding and grooming contests.

Misty remembered where she had seen the woman before, she was featured in many magazines due to being a rising star in the world of pokemon breeding.

Just like the ranks of Pokemon trainers, Pokemon breeders were ranked too.

Lowest being 3rd class, then second class, first class, and top class.

A top first-class breeder had a reputation equal to an elite-class trainer while the Top class has that of an elite class and a gym leader.

Being a 2nd class breeder at the age of 22 was a great deal as it was very difficult.

And based on the achievements and courses she had completed, it wouldn't take long for her to become a first-class breeder.

They became friends and exchanged contacts to talk to each other later on.

If possible Suzie said she wanted to meet Aoki and ask for recipes.

Misty had no problem with that and said that she would inform her in a day or two.

After a long talk and laughter, Misty started training her Pokemon while Suzie started reading a book.

A few trainers came to challenge her to a battle which she accepted and wiped the floor with, winning some money.

It was the evening that Misty stopped and decided to end it for today.

They bid farewell as Misty went towards her residence while Suzie towards her hotel.