Seafoam Islands 

A week later, the result and clips of the Youth Cup were released all over Kanto setting off a storm.

Aoki's popularity reached the skies.

The clips of his monstrous Pokemon and them destroying their opponents set a new wave of excitement.

Victreebel became a fan-favorite Pokemon all over Kanto as new trainers began to search for Bellsprouts to train while people with Victreebel began giving them more attention to one day become like Aoki.

When it was revealed that Aoki was going to be participating in the Kanto League this year, a lot of trainers decided to withdraw from the event in fear of facing such a monster.

Sabrina was already famous, but her fan following increased even more.

Misty gained a new fan following from her matches.

Somewhere in Orange Town:

Professor Oak and his team of researchers sat in Aoki's father's restaurant and watched all the highlights with Aoki's parents.

Aoki's parents jumped joyfully seeing their son's success while Oak could not wait to meet Aoki's Pokemon.

In Saffon City, Chongyun was watching the highlights with pride when a new person entered the room.

Chongyun looked at the person and had a wide smile.

"You finally remember your teacher huh Asmodeus"

In Flannery City, Alex and Jill watched the highlights and took notes to improve themselves.

Ash who was staying on Cinnabar island used the matches to motivate himself for the upcoming Pokemon league.

Suzie from her home watched Aoki with a smile while bushing the fur of her Ninetales.

In Viridian City, Giovani and two other executives of Team Rocket watched the footage with not-so-happy expressions.

"I hope he stays neutral and doesn't go his way becoming a social justice warrior, " Ariana said.

"Aoki joined Alfred's faction, I don't think we will be having any problem unless we confront him," Emily said.

"Kanto league would be trying to promote Aoki to the champion position.

Lance was never their choice since he is from Johto" Ariana said.

"I have known Alfred since we were children….

His methods are radical but they give results.

If he becomes the chairman after this, it's undeniable that Kanto would be going through a new change.

Be ready, Team Rocket would be getting busy in the future. " Giovani said.

In Cerlean City, Misty's family was proud of Misty for reaching such a level.

The current Misty and her from a year ago appeared to be completely different people.

Aoki's influence on Misty's life changed everything.

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While the entire Kanto was talking about Aoki, he was sitting by a pool on a cruise ship. Eevee was curled up in a ball and sleeping on his lap as Aoki stroked her soft fur.

Sabrina too beside him in a bikini enjoying the warm sun rays. Although she would have never worn such clothes that showed so much skin, she had to give into Aoki's persuasion.

It was undeniable that intimate time with Aoki had changed something within her.

Currently, they were on a 7 day cruise trip to see the Seafoam Islands. Aoki decided to use the free travel pass he received as a prize.

Gyarados was in the ocean following them and fighting every worthy opponent he could find.

In the past few days, his older Pokemon do their regular training while Aoki solely focused on the new ones since all of them reached the intermediate stage.

Since they were exposed to dark aura more than Aoki's older Pokemon, the new ones became stronger after reaching the intermediate stage.

Axew became the strongest of the four followed by Abra, Trapinch, and lastly Eevee.

Axew's hatred for Aoki was gone and replaced with respect.

He developed a healthy rivalry with the others of his age.

All of his peers were talented so if he slacked off he would be surpassed which he would not allow with his dragon pride.

Axew's goal was Darkrai who he had pledged to surpass one day.

Abra always made sure to train very hard since he got to sleep after that while Eevee wanted to become strong for Aoki.

Trapinch had no such goals, he trained and fought because he had fun out of it. He took pleasure in pranking others and making others laugh. Gastly was his best friend and partner in crime.

His older Pokemon made sure to train the disciples they took properly.

Out of all the Pokemon Aoki caught in the Safari zone, the Chansey squad trained by Clefable and Gastly trained by Darkrai showed the best results.

Darkrai's experience paired with Aoki's training methods gave Gastly the best training environment.

If things go on like this, Aoki would include Gastly in his second team too.

Aoki always kept the Dratiny egg and Larvitar egg close to him and enriched them with dark aura.

He was sure that there would be some mutation that would make them stronger than the normal species so he could not wait for them to hatch.

Darkrai on some occasions let the eggs absorb some energy of chaos to develop early resistance and more mutations.

Salamence and Charizard too regularly let Dranity's egg absorb their dragon-type energy for proper growth.

Salamence seemed more enthusiastic since he wanted to see how Aoki felt when Bagon hadn't hatched yet.

Nidking was mostly responsible for feeding ground-type energy to Larvitar's egg.

Before coming on the trip, Aoki had brought some very expensive fossil oils that can be applied on the eggs of rock and ground-type Pokemon to make them healthier.

Seafoam Islands are one of the most beautiful as well as one of the most dangerous places in Kanto.

It is made up of a group of islands with varying distances from each other.

The strange thing about these islands is that all of them have different climates that don't change throughout the year.

Most of the islands have become tourist spots for their beautiful forest, beaches, waterfalls, etc.

But the islands to the south are considered forbidden regions due to their danger as they are always covered in a snowstorm.

They have situated a respectable distance so they don't affect the resort islands in any form.

The water currents around the islands are very strong and moreover, the area around the island has one of the largest nests of Gyarados who hate intruders.

The southernmost island which is the largest and has the stronger storms is said to be the next of the legendary birds Articuno.

Many trainers went in search of the legendary Articuno but lost their lives before they could even reach the interior of the islands.

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The cruise ship traced across all the tourist islands with Aoki and Sabrina visiting all of them.

One island had a very beautiful beach with forests full of tasty fruits.

One island had different types of waterfalls. Some were underwater, some had different colors of water and some flowed in reverse directions.

One had a dormant volcano with a lot of wall paintings. There were tribal communities living on this island who didn't want to embrace the modern world and liked living in their traditional community.

The last tourist island was covered with snow.

Aoki for the first time tried Skiing and Ice shaking and got hang of it pretty soon while Sabrina kept falling down till she used her psychic powers.

The trip brought Aoki and Sabrina closer and spend a lot of intimate time together.

Sabrina was now actually interested in Aoki and genuinely wanted to be with him. Aoki too enjoyed her company so made their relationship official.

Misty was updated about everything which made her jealous of Sabrina so Aoki promised her the same trip during her vacation from training.

Currently Misty was staying on Agatha's island where she was trained in Agatha's methods.

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"Fuuuuu…." Sabrina held Charizard closer as he flew towards the last and the most dangerous island of Seafoam Islands.

She was keeping the ice off her with her psychic powers but her powers were ineffective against the negative temperature.

The cruise ship would not go further they had to fly towards the last islands.

Aoki was sitting on Salamence who was using a fire coat to protect against the ice storm they were going through.

His Red Gyarados was swimming continuously fighting the hoards of Gyarados under the frozen layer of water.

Pidgeot and Aerodactyl too were flying beside trying their best to survive the bone-freezing temperature.

Clefable was following behind them with gravity and psychic power but was in a better condition.

They could feel their wings freezing but they had to keep going.

As they got closer to the islands, the hail storm increased even more so Aoki jumped on Charizard's back and sat tightly hugging Sabrina while using dark aura.

Whether it was day or not, nothing was clear anymore.

"Charizard, Salamence, Clefable use fire to create a way " Aoki shouted.

"You should have stayed back in the resort.

You wouldn't be able to survive on the island like this" Aoki said to Sabrina.

"I am going, I need to improve my psychic abilities and make my Pokemon stronger.

Harsher the environment, the better.

I have just started to live a stressful life with you, I can't afford to lose it" Sabrina said while still shivering.

Aoki didn't reply but took out more warm clothes from his bag and wrapped them around Sabrina.

"Darkrai create a flame barrier around us"

Darkrai nodded and created a circular barrier of flames around Aoki and Sabrina.

Finally, after flying for some more time, they landed on the island which was even colder.

Aoki called back Gyarados and send Darkrai a place to camp.

He had plans to stay in this freezing temperate for a few days to train.

Although it was still evening according to the clock the sunlight was completely blacked making it complete darkness on the island.

Darkrai came back after a few minutes and led them toward a large cave that he found.

Most of Aoki's Pokemon wanted to explore the island so Aoki let them leave. Since Darkrai could connect with everyone's mind, he would know if someone was in danger.

The one who stayed in the cave was Clefable and Darkrai.

"Are you sure you can find Articuno here? " Sabrina said rubbing her hands.

"If Artucino can be found anywhere in Kanto, it's here.

But in current conditions, it's impossible to explore the island.

Tomorrow I will try to clear the weather by destroying the clouds.

********

The next morning, all of Aoki's flying Pokemon started to destroy the storm clouds returning the visibility to the environment.

Although the temperature was still low alongside freezing wind, at least the island was now traversable.

With visibility returned, the first thing Aoki saw was a tall mountain reaching the clouds.

That would be his target after he completed his training.

Aoki called out all his Pokemon and started their training in the negative temperature weather.

Some of the training methods even included swimming in the ice-cold water which was especially difficult for Salamence and Victreebel.

Abra, Axew, Eevee, and Trapinch were made to train in harsh conditions too.

Sabrina too decided to train her Pokemon in hard weather after asking Aoki for tips.

For the next seven days, the cycle continued with Aoki slowly exploring the island.

The harsh environment increased every Pokemon's tolerance to the cold. Aoki made Salamence and Axew train the hardest and made them develop resistance to the ice to a degree.

As the training ended for now, intermediate rank Gastly was now in his official team alongside Abra, Axew, Eevee, and Trapinch.

While exploring, Aoki found various Pokemon that didn't belong to the Kanto region living on the island like the Mamoswine family, Walrein family, and Snowrunt family alongside rare species like Jynx and Delibird.

Both the evolution lines of Snowrunt being Froslass and Glalie were present on the island so Aoki figured there must of dawn stone on this island too.

Aoki decided to catch on Swinub to get Mamoswine and one Snowrunt to get Forsslass.

He wanted to research about them but didn't really feel like adding them to his team.

Sabrina decided to catch one Jynx for herself due to its Psychic typing.

Gyarados while exploring the water, informed Aoki that one waterline entered the mountain so Aoki and Sabrina decided to take that route to enter the mountain.

Like Mt.Moon which was covered in darkness, this mountain was surprisingly different.

There were glowing blue stones all over the path giving a clear picture of the path.

Although the sight of glowing ice was beautiful, the temperature inside was even lower.

"Are these Never melt ice?" Sabrina asked.

"Yes, you are right. We can take some with us "

The lower floors only had Pokemon up to master rank so Aoki made his new team fight every wild Pokemon on the way.

As they went above, the level of wild Pokemon improved putting pressure on them.

Aoki made his second team even fight elite-level Pokemon while they worked together to take them down.

It took them several days to reach the top of the mountain as Aoki was researching the ecosystem there.

Even in this freezing cold, there was no shortage of vegetation.

The species of plants found inside the mountain could only survive in negative temperatures and would die out in warmer areas.

Unlike normal ice-type Pokemon, the Pokemon found here had adapted to live in extremely cold by various means by either learning to create remedies against the cold or evolving to grow an extra layer of fat or large fur.

For example, the hair found on Mamoswine here was larger and denser than the one outside or in any other place.

Just like any other wild Pokemon area, territorial wars were common here too.

Pokemon hunted other Pokemon as a source of food as it was impossible for them to just survive on plants.

As annoying as it sounds, there was the Zubat family there too who had adapted to live there by growing large white fur.

Aoki thought of taking a Zubat with him but decided against it rather decided to let Darkrai leave a teleportation marker at the top.

Darkrai also took a part of the coldest region and assimilated it into his dimension for the new ice Pokemon Aoki caught.

Finally, after several days of travel, Aoki reached the top and immediately felt the changes in the environment.

Aoki had entered a legendary domain.

The floor looked like an ice chamber with a lot of space with the roof opening to the sky.

The temperature fell again followed by snowfall which Aoki didn't see before inside the cave.

As he went deeper into the last chamber, the Sunlight hit his face but it had no warmth.

In front of him was a giant frozen nest but instead of any Pokemon, it just had a glowing blue feather.

As soon as Aoki touched the feather, he heard a high-pitched noise as he looked up to see the shadow of a bird covering the roof.

The legendary bird of Kanto, Articuno was here.