Unova region

The following day, all three gathered at the airport along with Agatha.

"Hope three of you had a good sleep last night even if you didn't, you'd be sleeping through the flight anyways " Agatha was back with her comments early in the morning.

Misty was pretty excited to ride on an international Aeroplane and Sabrina had the same cold expression.

The flight took about 9 hours and finally landed in Castelia City.

This was the largest and most developed city in the Unova region and it was damn impressive.

If Aoki thought Saffron City was impressive, this city took it to next level.

Castelia city of Unova ranks as one of the most advanced cities along with the Lumiose City of Kalos, Saffron City of Kanto, and Goldenrod City of Johto.

The buildings of this City were so tall that Aoki had to bend his head all the way back to look at them properly.

There was a member from the league who took four of them to the hotel they will be staying for now.

They were the third team to reach this place with Unova and Kalos already there.

Every team will be staying there till the end of the week and doing whatever they wanted after which they will be leaving for the Pokemon League stadium where the event will be happening.

The hotel they checked into was a 5-star hotel and very spacious rooms for everyone.

"Alright, you three can take a tour of the city or stay here, don't disturb me, " Agatha said before teleporting somewhere.

"If she wasn't going to properly act as our guide, why did she even come!" Misty was annoyed with Agatha.

"Maybe she just wanted a vacation," Sabrina said.

"Alright, all the other trainers are out on a stroll so let's decide what to do "

"Let's go out individual ways for today as it's already evening, we can go together tomorrow to see the city " Misty suggested.

"Let's do that " Sabrina agreed with her.

Sabrina went somewhere unknown while Misty went towards the ocean in search of some water Pokemon.

'Alright then, let's see what can I do...

I can visit the gym, go on a shopping trip or visit some famous places.

Since there is a desert after leaving the city, I might find a Trapinch there.

Flygon will be a good addition to my team.

So desert it is then. '

Before going there Aoki searched the league database and the internet if Pokemon trainers in the name of Hilda, Hilbert, Rosa, or Nate existed or not.

Unfortunately, he didn't find anything.

He remembered during the time the games took place, Cynthia was already a champion so they might start their journey in the future.

Aoki took a taxi for going to the outskirts of the city.

In cities like this where tall buildings are everywhere, flying on a Pokemon was not allowed so he took a taxi.

He paid the driver some extra and asked him to show him some famous places on the way.

The first place he saw was the entrance of the official bug gym which was led by Gym leader Burgh.

From the driver, he heard that gym leader Burgh was a famous artist.

The next stop was the museum which looked like a colosseum.

Here many historical artifacts, fossils, paintings, etc. can be found

Next was the building of the Researcher Alliance opposite to which was the lab of the most famous professor of Unova, Professor Juniper.

'She indeed is a charming woman ' Aoki thought seeing her picture.

She is currently not in this town but there is a chance that she will be there at the event.

'I will give the researcher alliance a visit tomorrow'

The next stop was the Pokemon center at the center of the city.

This building was three times larger than the one in Kanto as Pokemart has been merged with it.

Finally, they reached the Battle stadium which was at the end of the city surrounded by a big park.

Aoki could see a lot of trainers training their Pokemon or people hanging out.

As the Taxi passed by the park, Aoki focused on one person who seem to be polishing his Scizor's red shell with a Drapion laying beside him.

The Drapion was at the elite stage while the Scizor was at quasi-elite.

The trainer had short light green hair with a cow lick near his forehead.

'From the description, I read about the trainers, that must be Aaron, the future elite four of Sinnoh region.

I will meet him later on '.

The driver dropped him off where the park ended as that was the maximum he could go.

Aoki paid him and called out his Salamence.

"Let's go, buddy, we have a new member to pick "

Getting back to Salamence Aoki surveyed the desert and it was several times larger than Aoki's imagination.

As it was already night, all the Pokemon living in the sand had hidden themselves so it was nearly to impossible search for what he wanted with normal methods.

He pulled out the Pokeballs of Charizard and Clefable and gave them some commands.

"Chizard release your dragon-type energy and change the intent to invitation.

Clefable goes with him and bring me some of the strongest Trapinch you could find. "

Trapinch had a dormant Dragon-type gene which only activates when they evolve to Vibrava.

With the method Aoki was using, the Trapinch who had the most chance to evolve to Vibrava and Flygon will be attracted to the dragon-type energy and come near the surface.

"Darkrai please collect some sand for the pit we prepared, Celebi should be ready to collect some Cactus for that custom habitat "

[It will be done]

Salamence repeated the same process with a much wider range as his energy capacity and intent manipulation mastery was greater than Charizard.

Aoki's method gave some results as fifteen to sixteen Trapinch came to the surface.

Aoki covered all of them with his aura but didn't find any of them that interesting.

He still captured the one that had the strongest pull toward Salamence's energy.

"Hey buddy, increase the power of your intent "

Salamence did the same and slowly moved around the desert making Trapinch pop their head out occasionally.

There were several Vibrava too but had very less dragon-type energy.

After doing so much experimentation with aura every day, Aoki could somewhat tell the potential of a Pokemon based on their reaction to his aura.

None of those Vibrava give away that feeling so they were at the bottom of the potential ladder.

Clefable and Charizard returned too with a group of Trapinch but they were not that interesting too.

Aoki looked for the next two hours but didn't find anything that caught his eyes that much.

"Let's camp here for a few minutes, we will leave after that "

He decided to bond with the two Trapinch that had the highest potential among them.

Aoki contended with his result as one of them responded fairly well to his aura meaning it had high potential.

That is when something interesting happened, an orange head popped out of the sand near the place where Salamence was and bit his leg.

Salamence shook his leg and brought out the Pokemon from the sand.

'Now would you look at that?

I don't know if it can be called bravery or oblivious to danger '.

The Dragon-type bloodline inside him took control of him making him bite Salamence's leg.

Although the potential of the new Trapinch was not higher than the other two he caught, his attitude made Aoki impressed.

'A potential member of my team'

***********

While Aoki was busy with his Trapinch hunt, Agatha entered a fairly large room where two people were there with glasses of wine ready.

"Haven't seen you in a while, Agatha, come here and have a drink with us " spoke up the lady who was a bit old but younger than Agatha.

She wore a brown sweater and a matching long skirt.

She wore a necklace, bracelets, and two earrings made of Dragon fang.

This was the dragon specialist elite four of Kalos region, Drasna.

"Hope those old bones are not giving you too much trouble " spoke up the man.

The man was tall and muscular. He had white hair and facial hair that hid his lips completely. He wore a white shirt full shirt whose sleeves were folded to make it half and a pair of grey jeans.

This was the strongest gym leader in the Unova region, Dragon specialist Draiden

"These old bones are doing just fine, you two don't have to worry about that, " Agatha said picking up a glass.

"I have got to say every time some exceptional talent pops out of Kanto. Last time was Lance who now is a champion and this time it's a professor who dominated the pre-preliminaries.

What are you feeding your please tell us too " Drasna said with a laugh.

"I wonder about that…." Agatha didn't say anything.

"I met your first ranker Diantha on the streets, " Agatha said looking at Drasna.

"She was surrounded by people asking for her photo and autographs "

"Haha same as always… spite of being such a good actress, she is bad at hiding her identity and someone surely manages to guess her identity. " Drasna had a good laugh.

"There are a lot of interesting trainers this year like the Heir of Devon Corporation with his ace shiny Metagross, Granddaughter of Professor Carolina with her ace Garchomp and Professor Gunhildr with his assumed ace Salamence." Draiden said.

"There is Lance's niece from Johto too, " Drasna said.

"I don't remember us being that strong during our generation.

Time sure is changing " Draiden said.

"I heard that the team from Johto and Sinnoh will be arriving soon," Agatha said taking another sip.

"I had a talk with Drake a few days ago, he said that they are on a world tour and will arrive by the end of the week, " Drasna said.

"The people of Hoen are surely taking their time "

"This time the rewards appear to be more generous than the last time. The top three trainers will be getting a lot of benefits" Agatha said.

"There is a reason for that. A lot of criminal organizations and cults are arising recently and causing trouble all over.

We need new faces to hold control.

In Unova, I have heard reports of a new organization called Team Plasma. They have gained some supporters with their motto 'all Pokemon should be freed from evil humans '. " Draiden said.

"My Kalos region is peaceful so far but I can't say anything about the future "