Fighting-type gym 

After having a short discussion with Suzie, it was decided that Aoki and Suzie will meet up at this place for the practice sessions every evening.

She would be staying in Saffron City for a week and hoped to learn as much as she could during that time.

Aoki was going to have a very heavy week.

Training in the dojo for a few hours then after that training his own Pokemon while writing down new data for research.

Fortunately, he had the power of aura which gave him a lot of stamina, or else he would be in trouble.

Aoki sniffed around some more information on the fighting Gym and found that the dojo master used his strongest Pokemons against the first-timers and lower the difficulty after the first match.

Only a few people were able to reduce their fees and win against the gym leader.

The Gym leader has 6 Pokemons but only uses 5 Pokemons which were Machamp, Hitmonchan, Hitmonlee, Hitmonstop, and Primape.

'Seems like it that he either has elite level Pokemon or uses Aura to strengthen his pokemons'

That evening Aoki went out of the city to check how strong his newly evolved Pokemons had become and as expected Pigeot and Victreebel thrashed every single member of his team except Darkrai.

Pidgeot's speed had increased to such a degree that Charmeleon couldn't even get a few proper hits before getting defeated making him frustrated and growing thrust for power.

Aoki purposely didn't let Charmeleon evolve as he wanted his thirst for power to reach its limit.

Aoki was not satisfied with having only elite-level pokemon, he needed a champion and beyond that.

Unlike Pidgeot and Victreebel who had reached their limit of growth at their previous stage, Charmelon had still had a lot of growth so he would not let him evolve till he was satisfied.

There was a huge difference in the power of a species in the same rank for example a Shadow Ball from elite rank Darkrai would overpower any shadow ball thrown at him even at champion rank power due to his power of a species.

It's the same concept so after the Pokemon in Aoki's party reach their final stage Victreebel and Pidgeot are going to be left behind at the last unless they get a new power-up. Aoki was going to make sure that they reach at least champion rank and will not stop training them unless they reach that stage.

With Aoki's current power, it was enough to complete all the gyms and get a very good rank in the Pokemon league but he would not be satisfied with anything except the first rank.

His goal is to have a least 3 to 4 elite-rank Pokemons before he challenges the Pokemon league and a full team of elite Pokemon before the elite four.

The next morning Aoki left his house and reached the dojo.

He showed his ID for the gym battle and was told the gym leader was waiting for him at the battle stadium.

As he was now registered with the Dojo, he needed to wear the uniform which was a white kimono-type thing with a white belt i.e standard Karate attire.

Aoki got to know more about the place a bit before he went to the required place.

The ground floor had three sections namely the battle stadium, the reception, and the cafeteria.

Then came the 1st underground floor where all the training took palace.

The second underground floor was where Pokemon and people for relieving muscle strain and bathing rooms were present.

The last and their underground floor was where the dorms were present.

All the floors were well-lit and temperature regulated.

Aoki finally reached the stadium after looking around.

The stadium had a rock-type battlefield with walls made of metal.

The size of the battlefield was equal to the other gyms that he had battles in.

At the opposite end of the stadium was a muscular man with short trimmed hair red wearing the same uniform as him but with a black belt.

He was sitting in a meditating posture and opened his red eyes as Aoki approached the stadium.

As soon as they both made eye contact, Aoki could feel that man's aura explode and cover his body as if it was covered in white flames.

'Dangerous!! '

If Aoki's presence made Pokemon friendly to him, that man's aura was threatening and heavy as if telling him to stay away from him.

~Muhahaha ~ the dojo master stood up and started laughing. The Dojo master was very tall but not as tall as the monter Lt.Surge was.

"It's been a while since I last saw someone use aura…

Hmm, you must have recently aquired this power.

What is your name boy? " the man asked Aoki as if he was looking at a prey.

"I am Aoki, how did you know that I could use aura? I am pretty sure I did not release my aura? Aoki asked.

He knew that that man would be able to tell at one glance that he was an aura guardian as he always leaked some dark aura even after learning to suppress it to some degree.

Sitll he wanted to hear from the expert's mouth.

Darkrai could only tell him some things about aura but he had no idea about how to control that power.

Aoki wanted to learn that man as much as he could in those two weeks.

"I am Chongyun, the dojo master and the fighting-type gym leader. " Chongyun said loudly with a wide smile.

"As for how I could tell that you are an guardian because of two things.

First, the aura leaking out of your body is not constant and controlled.

Second, it's just a raw aura with no feeling or intent.

By the sheer amount of raw aura you are leaking, you will naturally learn to instill your intent into it but since you cannot do that, you must have recently aquired this power,"

Aoki understood what he was telling but still decided to ask. "Can you tell me more about it? "

"Muhaha! I am coming across an aura guarding after years so I shall give you a chance to get personal training from me.

You have registered for a two-week course right, if you can defeat me on your first try not only I will half your fees but also give your private lessons everyday !! " Chongyun announced.

"Bring in on then!!"