Before going to Route 13, I went back to Route 14 and captured an Absol. Then, I tried to go out to Route 13. But first, my Rival appeared and challenged me to a battle. Awesome! Too bad he only had three Pokemon with him, I won against him rather easily. After the battle, I finally went out to Route 13. I battled all trainers here, picked up all items and captured Tangela, Solrock, Lunatone and Pelipper. However, there was a part of the Route which I couldn’t get to, I suppose I will have to go back later and see if there is any way to access it. At the end of the Route, I met Cobalion again. This time, it didn’t run away, it just stood there. Did it want to battle me? Maybe, but there was no way I could do that yet, I wasn’t prepared for this at all!
I entered Lacunosa Town, where I met Professor Juniper and Bianca again. They had something to tell me, so I followed them to one of the houses in the Town, where an old lady told us the legend of how a Pokemon had appeared from a Meteorite hitting the Giant Chasm long ago. It was decided that I should ask Drayden for more information if I could defeat him. I explored the town, but there wasn’t extremely much to see. As I tried to exit the Town, I ran into my Rival again. Then, out of nowhere, two members of Team Plasma appeared. We battled them, and won. They ran away, and my rival ran after them as usual.
I went out to Route 12, battled the surprisingly few trainers here and picked up a few items. Continued to the Village Bridge where I did pretty much the same thing, battled the trainers here, picked up some items and captured a Zangoose. Then Route 11, for the same thing once more, I battled the trainers here that I could battle, picked up a few items and captured a Karrablast. I also met a green Pokemon which looked similar to Cobalion, but I feared its strength and didn’t feel like battling it yet.
Entered Opelucid City, where I met Iris again. She told me that the Gym Leader, Drayden, is her grandfather, and that I should challenge him. Well, that was what I had planned to do anyway. I explored the city, but decided to head out to Route 9 before taking on the Gym. On the route, I battled all the trainers, picked up all items and captured a Pawniard and a Garbodor. Couldn’t continue out to the Tubeline Bridge because it was blocked. I entered the Shopping Mall Nein instead and battled the trainers there, bought a few items and found others on the floor.
With that, I was ready to challenge the Gym. Went there, and I think this gym has the most epic music of all the gyms so far. I battled the regular trainers and then it was time for Drayden. None of my team members has any moves which are strong against Dragons, but I do at least have a Steel-type on my team. So I decided to lead with Magnezone. A Thunder Wave and a Critical Hit Flash Cannon was enough to defeat his Druddigon. He sent out Flygon next, I didn’t want to have Magnezone up against it so I sent in Gothitelle. It managed to use Psychic once but was defeated by a Critical Hit Crunch. I sent in Crobat which took care of the earth dragon with Acrobatics. Only Haxorus left, and it was 2HKO’d by Crobats Acrobatics. So I won and got my seventh badge.
He had to tell me the about the story of the Legendary Dragon-type Pokemon on order from Professor Juniper. We exited the Gym and I followed him to his house. There, he told me all about it. A very interesting story. Just as he had finished, we heard something from outside. We went outside, and in the sky, we saw… a flying ship? Pretty cool. The ship had a cannon at the front which started to shoot ice, making almost all of the city frozen. Before our eyes, a bunch of members from Team Plasma appeared. They were after the DNA splicers Drayden owned. But he wasn’t going to let them get the hold of that, instead, he wanted me to help him clean the city from Team Plasma. Which I naturally had to help him with.
So I battled the three Plasma Grunts around the city, and then the boss. They ran away. Drayden approached me and told me that he had hidden the DNA Splicers inside of the Gym. He showed them to me, but the Shadow Triad or whatever they are called appeared and stole them from us! We chased them, but they managed to escape. I got a call on the Xtransciever from Cheren saying he suspected something was going on in the Giant Chasm, next to Humilau City. So that is where I am heading next, I will have to take the Marine Tube in order to get there.
Team:
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