Pokémon: The Final Prologue
Chapter 8

Challenging the Cerulean Gym

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On this clear and sunny day, it is a great time to go challenge a gym with beauties. What do you all think?

(Not bad, but this time I am not going to capture a harem, but rather to get the second badge so I can collect all eight gym badges as soon as possible to earn the right to challenge the Indigo League Conference. I do not want to take a plane straight to the Kalos Region; other regions have Pokémon I want to catch, like Mewtwo and those.)

"Are you fans of ours?" three tall, fair-skinned, and stunningly beautiful elder sisters ask Xiao Yan, and these three beauties are the three who do synchronized water ballet.

"No, I am here to challenge the gym." Xiao Yan speaks directly to the three beautiful elder sisters; if Brock saw this, he would definitely be very envious.

"Is that so... Come in. My eldest sister, Sakura, will battle you in the gym match." A younger-looking sister leads Xiao Yan into the gym.

Xiao Yan stands at one end of the battle field. The middle of the Cerulean Gym's battle field is a swimming pool, and Water-type Pokémon have a geographical advantage here.

"Is this the challenger?"

"Yes, my name is Xiao Yan." I am a bit afraid to look Sakura straight in the front because her assets are too big-I mean, the Starmie beside her.

"Brock, Misty, look, that's a new friend I made. His name is Xiao Yan," Ash introduces Xiao Yan enthusiastically in the spectator area. The stronger the strength, the more excited Ash gets, even though he is not the one competing.

"Xiao Yan, we meet again. Let me see how much your strength has improved," Brock murmurs to himself.

Well, aside from Ash, Xiao Yan, and Brock, no one present notices that the Cerulean Gym Leader's younger sister, Misty, is checking her appearance in the reflection of the water surface. I personally feel Misty's sisters are much more mature than Misty.

"This match is a three-on-three duel with the Cerulean Gym Badge as the stake. The Gym Leader cannot swap out Pokémon midway, only the challenger can. The battle begins." The referee waves a banner, signaling that they can start.

"Challenger, you go first." Sakura tells the Starmie beside her to go first.

"Go, Charmeleon, let's have a disadvantage-type duel. I sent out Charmeleon; Charmeleon also needs special training, and by the way..." Fire type, huh? Starmie, Water Gun.

Faced with this situation where there is water all around, Charmeleon's range of movement is indeed very small, but...

"Charmeleon, use Ember continuously on the water." Charmeleon constantly uses Ember on the water surface, and Starmie's Water Gun was just evaporated by the temperature on the water surface.

"Not bad. Starmie, dive into the water."

At this moment, the corners of Xiao Yan's mouth curl upward by 45 degrees, and the next second, Starmie jumps out, glowing entirely red.

"Charmeleon, take the chance now, Dragon Rage."

Before Starmie has time to dodge, Starmie is hit directly, but it still does not fall.

"This Starmie has pretty good stamina."

"Starmie, the water has cooled things down quite a bit. Go in and pull Charmeleon into the water."

"Charmeleon, watch your footing." Just as Xiao Yan finishes speaking, instantly a starfish arm directly pulls Charmeleon into the water. "Oh no, Charmeleon, come back." Seeing that the situation is urgent, I have no choice but to recall Charmeleon.

"Pikachu, I'm counting on you."

"Pika~"

"Thunderbolt." A flash of electricity is seen sparkling across the water surface, and in the center of these flashes of electricity, a starfish floats up with its eyes spinning in swirls.

"Starmie is unable to battle."

Of course, the rest goes without saying. Pikachu completely dominates the three Water-type Pokémon; after all, water conducts electricity.

"Congratulations. This is proof of defeating the Cerulean Gym, the Cascade Badge." Sakura takes out a blue badge and hands it to Xiao Yan.

"Thank you."

"Xiao Yan, I hope you can stay and watch my gym battle." Ash finally speaks at this moment. His expression is very serious. Xiao Yan knows he will become strong in the future, so he stays to watch Ash's gym battle to see if he can learn anything. I am done for; clearly I can already beat Ash, yet I still think this way. To be honest, I am watching to see if he can catch a harem.

"Okay." I give a bland response.

Well, this time Ash also follows Xiao Yan's lead by using Pikachu to completely dominate the three Water-type Pokémon, though the ones being dominated are Misty's. Xiao Yan feels it is strange; in the anime, Team Rocket should come out to drain the water at this point, but not even a shadow of Team Rocket is seen.

"Pretty cool, right?" Ash says with a cheeky smile to Xiao Yan. No matter how you look at it, it seems like he is looking down on Xiao Yan for sending out Charmeleon at the start instead of using Pikachu.

"It's alright." I reply sensibly with this line.

Whatever, Misty and her sisters are having a family reunion, Ash has collected his badge, and finally...

"Xiao Yan, can I ask you a question?"

"What is it, Brock?"

"Why did you use Charmeleon at the start instead of Pikachu?"

"I wanted to train Charmeleon and get him used to water." Still unable to catch a harem...

"I see. Your strength has improved very quickly. Well, goodbye until next time."

Bidding farewell to Ash and his group, Xiao Yan puts away the badge he just won and continues onto his journey.

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