Darkness Beneath the Light (Bonus Chapter for 300 Monthly Votes)

Aaron would never forget that day. His hands had trembled as he wiped the egg clean with a gentleness he had never shown before. Then he emptied everything out of his backpack to make room for the Larvitar egg.

The Larvitar egg weighed nearly seventy kilograms, and the gray-green shell kept giving off strange waves of energy. There was no room for anything else in his backpack.

The moment Aaron got the egg, he knew he had two choices. He could hide until it hatched, catch the Larvitar, and flee to another region. Or he could run as far as possible with the egg, wasting no time on either step.

The first option might have been safer, but Aaron chose the second without hesitation.

The reason was simple: he had no Poké Balls.

Raising and evolving Fearow had already cost him nearly all the money he had. Otherwise, he would never have needed to catch Farfetch'd for extra cash.

As for buying one on the black market? Please. Everyone knew that ninety-nine percent of the Poké Balls sold there had tracking devices, planted to find anyone who had secretly caught a rare Pokémon so it could be stolen from them.

And that was not all. Everyone who entered the black market was scanned.

Could he buy a legitimate Poké Ball instead? He knew better. As a wanted Pokémon Hunter, he had no intention of walking straight into a trap.

Besides, while the League did not inspect the Pokémon of registered Trainers, that did not mean it would leave unregistered people alone. Someone without official papers had no right to privacy under the League.

He had to take the egg to the Hoenn Region. It was his best option. Sinnoh and the other regions were too far away, and he did