A Boring Post About The Story - Part 26

I've traveled. And traveled. It feels like I even traveled further then that... It feels like forever...

But I've finally made it to the place that Alder wanted me to go to. Relic Castle. This is where I caught Odessa so many moons ago. Cheren is actually waiting outside of the ruins...

Time to get ready to beat him into the ground...

Wait... what do you mean?!

Cheren... doesn't want to fight...?!

I head into Relic Castle and find Ryoku (who is one of the seven sages) and tells me that I have to fight my way through the Relic Castle. I can do that... right?

I find a TM I had been looking for, for a while. It's for Shadow Ball. I immediately teach it to Licky. 

Ghetsis and Alder are all the way at the bottom of these ruins and they are deep in conversation. I don't understand most of it, but... he does end the conversation by tell me and Alder that he thinks that we are working very hard on finding Reshiram and that if I want to save the world I will need to find him.

He then begins to talk to Alder about the Pokémon that Alder had and how it died... 

Alder had a Pokémon die, just like my own. It's still sad to hear however...

I find out while he was mourning his Pokémon friend by wandering the world and not doing his duties as a Pokémon Champion. Ghetsis throws some extra salt into Alder's wounds by saying that N is much stronger than him and then plows his way through us and out of the ruins. 

That leaves Alder and myself alone in the bottom of this sand castle. Alder takes me out, without having to backtrack (which is a nice touch) and we are outside.

My transiever begins to ring and it's Juniper telling me that I have to go to back to the second gym of the game. The gym with the museum, where Team Plasma tried to steal the bones of a dragon, which were totally Dragonite. 

I make my way slowly backwards through the desert and cities and forest, which seems like a ton of stuff now that I think about it. And I'm finally where Professor Juniper asked me to be. 

Outside the gym are the Junipers, Alder, Bianca and Lenora. 

Lenora, who seems to like me a lot, even though I destroyed her with Conch so very long ago, gives me an item called a Light Stone. She then begins to tell me that this stone will awaken Reshiram somehow. 

Then she more or less tells me that Team Plasma was in the right place at the right time to steal the things needed to awaken Reshiram, but just took the incorrect thing. 

Cedric then comes up to me and asks me how to revive the dragon.

Aren't you supposed to know that?

Then I'm told that I must go to Opelucid City and Alder flies off without me.

I wish I could fly on a Pokémon myself sometimes...

Bianca then in all of her splendid glory comes up to me after this long post about the story to finish it up with a bang.

"Oh that sounds really serious... that's about all I got out of that."

My Team:

Racksy (Stunfisk) level 40 - Route 8

Xanadu (Krookodile) level 52 - Desert Resort

Shorty (Minccino) level 40 - Route 16

Totts (Boldore) 40 - Twist Mountain

Licky (Lampent) 51 - Celestial Tower

Odessa (Cofagrigus) level 40 - Relic Castle

PC:

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The Fallen:

Bigguns (Joltik) level 35 - Chargestone Cave

Gregford (Swasbuck) level 34 - Dragon Spiral

Cowface (Zebstrika) 46 - Route 7

Catapult (Trubbish) level 30 - Route 5

Cracker (Foongus) 31 - Route 6

Dexxter (Vanillite) level 30 - Cold Storage

Tumbles (Ducklett) level 29 - Driftveil Bridge

Conch (Liepard) level 34 - Route 2

Zkippy (Lillipup) level 15 - Route 1

Upstairs (Oshawott) level 12 - Nuvema Town

Butterball (Pansear) level 18 - Dreamyard

Yuko (Blitzle) level 15 - Route 3

Amasya (Roggenrola) level 18 - Wellspring Cave

Flathead (Timburr) level 17 - Pinwheel Forest

Woodrow (Scraggy) level 30 - Route 4

Cannot Catch At These Areas

Lostlorn Forest

Elesa, The Sparky Roller Coaster Model - Part 15

We left off last time when something had happened to Xanadu.

He was changing... evolving into...

Krokorok, he's a little stronger and a little faster. It puts my heart at a little more ease now that I have two Pokémon that can hold their own.

I think that I have the power enough to take on the gym. Xanadu is strong and Conch can even help because it has Limber, which means it cannot be paralyzed. 

I head to the gym and I am stopped by N. He said he wants to talk to me for a little bit, so I allow him to talk to me. We head to the Ferris Wheel and he blurts out, without even any build-up, that he is the King of Team Plasma and he was asked personally by Ghetsis to save Pokémon. 

He then asks me to battle him, but I have no choice. 

He has four Pokémon all from the desert area. 

Xanadu is able to take out all of them with a single Dig, until he comes to Darumaka.

For this little guy it takes two hits, but he does hit Xanadu with a Fire Punch.

The last Pokémon that N has is Sigilyph. 

This strange guy has caused problems in the past with me, but with all of the Dark-types that I have it is actually very very simply fixed with a hearty Crunch. 

N is defeated and tells me that he is going to become the Pokémon Champion and the only way to stop him is take him on as Champion. 

N leaves and I'm about to head into the gym, but I get nervous. I decide to use some trainers I kept on the back burner for training now. 

I head back to the Desert Resort.

I fight through trainers and get items like Heart Scale, Rawst Berries and a Firestone.

Then as I'm exploring I remember something. There is an extra area with a different name here!

I head into the other area called Relic Castle. 

I fight a couple trainers here and the first Pokémon I run into is a Sandile, which I already have so I skip it (as per the rules) and try again...

It's the Ghost with a human face, Yamask. I catch it with no problems and name it with the next name off the list, Odessa. 

Now after the training I feel a little safer. 

I head back to the gym.

Inside I'm floored by what I see... 

It's a Tron-esque Roller Coaster! I ride the shuttle around to fight trainers and make my way to the Gym Leader.

It doesn't take long until I walk up to her and start the battle with Elesa. 

She sends out her first of three, and Emolga. 

Xanadu is out to counter it's first attack of an Aerial Ace with a Rock Tomb, which lowers its Speed. Xanadu throws another Rock Tomb, but misses and is hit with another Aerial Ace. Again this happens, but the fourth time is the charm and Emolga goes down.

Elesa must have little imagination, because she sends out another Emolga. 

Xanadu is too weak to go through all of that again, so I switch him out with Conch. 

Conch starts it out with a Fake Out, which is a free hit and then goes back for a Slash, which takes out her second mon.

The third and final Pokémon is always the strongest. She sends out her Zebstrika.

This is what Yuko would've become...

Conch Slashes at him and gets hit by a Spark. Conch winds up for another Slash and... it's a critical hit!

Zebstrika goes down and I took out Elesa!

She gives me a TM for Volt Switch and Bolt Badge!

I guess I'm not so stuck up the creek without a paddle like I thought!

My Team:

Conch (Liepard) level 34 - Route 2

Xanadu (Sandile) level 31 - Desert Resort

Catapult (Trubbish) level 21 - Route 5

Shorty (Minccino) level 19 - Route 16

Odessa (Yamask) level 21 - Relic Castle

The Fallen:

Zkippy (Lillipup) level 15 - Route 1

Upstairs (Oshawott) level 12 - Nuvema Town

Butterball (Pansear) level 18 - Dreamyard

Yuko (Blitzle) level 15 - Route 3

Amasya (Roggenrola) level 18 - Wellspring Cave

Flathead (Timburr) level 17 - Pinwheel Forest

Woodrow (Scraggy) level 30 - Route 4

Cannot Catch At These Areas

Lostlorn Forest