Celedon City - Black market

Sweet fragrance immediately invaded Aoki's nose as he entered Celedon City.

The scent was was like the sweet scent of grass Pokemons but a bit different.

Just like all the major cities, this city too was based on a color theme which was 'Green.'

Where ever his eyes went, he saw tall buildings.

Though not on the scale of Saffron City but similar to Vermillion City.

Another thing that was noticeable was the presence of a large number of trees and bushes at regular intervals in the city.

At the center of the City stood the tallest building of Kanto i.e the Celedon Department Store.

This building was the largest shopping mall in the entire Kanto region which has everything from common shops, bookstores, Food stores, Pokemon stores, play areas, movie theatres, etc.

Aoki and Misty walked the streets of Celedon city witnessing its unique appeal. Both of them were here for the first time.

Unlike Saffron City and Vermillion City which were enveloped in noise 24 X 7, Celadon City was very peaceful like Pewter city.

There were a large number of flowering plants along the sides and on the road divisions.

"The vibe here is completely different from all the cities we have visited, " Misty said.

Usually, she would be sweating a lot but the city appeared to be cooler so it was very comfortable.

"Misty, let's book a hotel first and relax, we can plan what to do next after that"

"Sure, let's go "

Both of them took out their bicycle and started moving towards the hotels that had the facilities they needed.

They booked a hotel owned by the league and had a short afternoon nap.

In the evening, they started discussing what to do next.

"I want to go to the game center!" Misty insisted.

"You know how bad you are at games right? You will lose all your money there" Aoki said.

"I can earn them back, right? not like I will be spending a lot. Trust me on this. Who knows I might win a Dratiny"

'The only time I can't trust you is when you play games and gamble Misty' Aoki thought.

"You will only use 20,000 Pokedollars max, " he said.

"Sure Sure, I have no plans to go beyond that anyways"

One of the highest rewards in the game center is a Dratiny.

Although reaching that goal is nearly impossible as in the 30 years the game center has been running, only 4 people had gathered the required points to claim a Dratiny.

Getting a Dratiny was a different thing and evolving it to Dragonite was a different thing.

Although getting a Dratiny was tempting but no sensible trainer wants a pseudo-legendary early on their journey.

Not only do they take enormous resources to grow also don't gain considerable strength till their last evolution stage.

Moreover, there was no guarantee that they would reach their last stage.

Out of 100 Dratiny, less than 5 have the potential to reach the last stage.

This is the reason Lance's family which owns a small Dratiny breeding ground in the Jhoto region doesn't have an army of Dragonite at their disposal.

The Game Centre was also an important place for Aoki as he remembered the presence of a Team Rocket Base below the Game center.

Although he is not sure if it's true there but he has no interest in meddling with the affairs of Team Rocket currently.

That aside, they made a schedule for going to different places together and separately.

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After spending a few days in Celedon City Aoki planned to go to the Black Market to get some things done.

That included buying resources for his Pokemons, buying a high-grade Dragon scale for Misty's Seadra, and trying to get some news if possible.

"Black market here is a bit different from the one in Saffron City " Aoki muttered looking at the streets filled with shops.

The Saffron City black market was part underground and part on the surface but the Black Market of Celedon City was completely underground.

Due to the presence of lighting and ventilation, it didn't feel uncomfortable.

Aoki had received most of the required information from Sabrina so he didn't need to go.

There was some information about the underground organizations too.

Team Rocket has increased their business rate again after that they had toned down a bit for the past few months.

There is a Team from the Hoen region that has been trying to take up the business of Team Rocket but things are not looking so good for them.

And finally, a new Team has emerged that is trying to buy a lot of Ghost and Dark Pokemons from the market.

They have shown no interest to clash against Team Rocket so they are left alone for the moment.

As long as there is Team Rocket in Kanto, no other team can survive and that is a positive thing in Aoki's opinion.

Aoki took out the map and walked towards the bounty center to look for new bounties.

There he saw that the previous bounties on Gym leaders were still there but some new faces were added. Most of the new trainers were Pokemon trainers or in a similar profession.

As Aoki was waiting, a new bounty surfaced making him chuckle.

[ Name: Aoki

Pic: (of the time when Aoki faced executive Luther)

Profession: Elite Trainer

Status: Alive only

Bounty:10 million]

[Name: Professor Gunhildr

Pic: Not available

Profession: Researcher

Status:70 million]

It was surprising to see two different bounties for the same person since Team Rocket knew about his identity.

Aoki was not worried about the bounty on him as long as Darkrai was there, no harm would come to him.

Leaving that place, Aoki entered the Pokemon shop and looked through the list of Pokemons available before talking about the deal.

There were about 4 master-level and 6 intermediate-level Pokemon that Aoki had tamed making them able to follow commands.

The people are the stop verified the Pokemon and after making sure that they were actually tamed, he was offered a deal of 90k each for the intermediate Pokemon and 400k for two of the 4 master level Pokemon, and 500k for the master-level Golduck and Hypno.

Aoki accepted the deal and left the shop.

Next, he reached a store with Pokemon corpses and body parts. The size of the shop was large just like the one in Saffron city.

There he placed an order for a number of items like a corpse of elite rank Arboks, a corpse of a Magmar, Dragon fangs, etc. which was around 2 million poke dollars.

After browsing through some more he picked up the things he mainly came for.

[Dragon scale of elite Pokemon

Cost: 500k ]

[Elite Kingdra corpse

Cost: 700k ]

The usual rate for elite-level wild untamed Pokemons started from 1 million based on the rarity.

Although the price of the corpse was very high, not every day can a corpse of an elite-level Kingdra can be found.

Moreover, if Aoki waited the price would go high due to its rarity.

Aoki didn't waste time and purchased all of the things he marked with a total bill of 1.6 million Pokedollars making his wallet almost empty.

As he made such a large purchase he was given a discount card for shopping in the shops that are under the same ownership.

The dragon scale and Kindra corpse were for Misty's Seadra.

She didn't have such a large amount of money so Aoki was gifting it to her.

The stronger she got, the more relieved Aoki would be.