Reaching Celedon City.

Aoki stayed in Celebi's forest for two more days adjusting to the new dimension.

After he was satisfied, he bid farewell to Zapdos and Celebi and started his journey toward Celedon City.

Misty had informed Aoki of her location which was a small town not far from Saffron City.

It didn't take him much time to reach the time with Pidgeot's speed.

He could go to Saffron City's Black Market but he was not in immediate need of money.

The town fell under the direct path from Saffron to Celedon so it was not in line with the forest Aoki stayed in.

Aoki had released his Pokemons except for Pidgeot into the dimension to train themselves and not waste time while he flew towards his destination.

Aoki found Misty outside the town training and cooking a meal for her Pokemon.

Around her was a new master rank Golduck.

She now had a good lineup which included Gyarados, Starmie, Slowking, Seadra, Golduck, Politoed, and Azumarill.

Her only Pokemon that had not reached the final stage was Seadra.

"Well, there she is...Pidgeot land near her"

~Preee~

Hearing a sound, Misty looked up and her face bloomed up…

"Aoookiii! What took you soo long !!"

Misty became cheerful seeing Aoki and stopped her training for a while.

"Some interesting things happened, " he said but Misty was already near him.

She gave Aoki a big hug and shared a kiss.

She knew Aoki was strong but received some updates that worried her.

"Hey Misty, when did Psyduck evolve? " he asked.

Golduck saw Aoki and gave a salute.

His eyes now contained smartness and seriousness instead of the aloofness that Psyduck had.

"You want to know?

It happened two days ago…when I ventured too deep into the forests near a river ignoring the warnings.

While I was traveling, I got ambushed by a large number of wild master-level Pokemon that were being commanded by a master rank Hypno and Golduck.

I saved Gyarados as last resort and fought with the rest of my Pokemon.

We were about to lose as the wild Hypno was very strong so I decided to take out Gyarados.

My Psyduck was having a very hard time against Golduck even with the support of others.

Seeing that we were losing triggered his evolution.

His strength soared and he was able to defeat the wild Golduck." Misty said hearing which Golduck puffed his chest with pride.

"Good for you Misty, now you have a strong lineup.

All that is left is to properly train them"

"Thank you, without your help, I could never reach this stage, "Misty thanked Aoki.

"So, what did you do with the Pokemon? "

"I captured the strongest ones like the Hypno and Golduck while Gyarados made some of them his lunch.

Surprisingly their base was very deep into the forest.

I saw a large number of human corpses used as rations for them. Fortunately, my Pokemon were strong, or else I would have become their food too." she said.

"Here are the Pokeballs, you can sell them in the Black Market for me "

"The signs are there for a reason you know. Something bad could have happened to you." Aoki said.

"I know I know…made some stupid decisions in the heat of the moment. "

Misty was disappointed with herself after the last fight.

With Aoki around, the danger of wild Pokemon putting them in danger is close to none as his Pokemon mostly take care of them while she mostly trained her Pokemon by making them fight each other.

For the last few days, she experienced the fear of wild Pokemon again which was nearly gone due to Aoki.

In the future, she has to venture into a lot of unknown areas alone so she can't always depend on Aoki to protect her.

Misty decided to start training her Pokemon to fight the wild Pokemon too so that she could gain more experience against the unknown.

"That being said, what were you doing for so many days anyway ?" she asked.

Aoki smiled and said " Hold tight as there are some wild things I was going to tell you about"

He starts telling his story starting by getting information about Team Rocket…confronting them…saving Zapdos, excluding the encounter with Giovani …..going to Zapdos' forest….meeting Celebi….birth to baby Zapdos, and ending with getting a large amount of gold, and diamonds.

He excluded the fact of Mega evolution and Darkrai's dimension for now. He will surprise her when the place looks as in his mind.

Misty's head started spinning after hearing all those ridiculous things that happened with Aoki in such a short span of time.

Finally, the matter with such a large number of Gold and Platinum made her relieved and worried at the same time.

Relieved by the fact that Aoki could buy a lot of items for his Pokemon and worried for the fact that how was he going to sell so much without arousing suspicion.

"Don't worry about it, Sabrina is going to handle that" Aoki assured Misty, and began showing her the video of Zapdos being born making her amazed.

They spend the rest of the day fooling around before continuing their journey toward Celedon City.

If they continued with their current speed, they should reach within two weeks.

Misty proposed that from now on she dealt with all the wild Pokemon which Aoki had no problem with.

While she made her Pokemon fight every wild Pokemon they saw, Aoki started training Darkrai with more focus as his powers had received a massive boost.

A champion-level Pokemon was not so easy to deal with after all.

Even when every single of his Pokemon goes all out against Darkrai, they are unable to take him out.

As a fight of that caliber would cause large-level destruction, he makes them fight in one corner of the dimension which is specifically built for combat.

Aoki had noticed that all of his Pokemon have reached a level where the growth speed had decreased a lot as compared to the earlier days.

It was expected as for an elite Pokemon, the jump from elite stage to champion is pretty big.

They have to keep pushing themselves more to reach the champion level without extra effort, even a dark aura is not going to help them.

Still, he was confident that with their speed, they should reach champion rank within two years which was several times faster than Oak's Dragonite which took 15 years, and Lance's Dragonite which took 10 years.

On the way to Celedon City, they came across 10 medium-sized towns which made their journey easy. Even though Aoki was busy with various things, he didn't forget to spend time with Misty and go on dates.

At the end of the 16th-day mark, they finally reached Celedon City.