Bab 59: Poison Battle

The battle was about to get started. The announcer announced the participants Koga The Poisonous Fart versus Liam The Victim. Liam started by bringing out Shadow who came out of Liam's shadow surprising all the ninjas there as they had greed in their eyes for this pokemon. Even though Koga had gotten information about some of Liam's Pokemon he was still surprised to see such a Pokemon.

Koga decided not to beat around the bush and summoned a level 75 Arbok. This Arbok was a Shiny Arbok but it was quite different from the normal Shiny, its color was slightly reddish giving it an angry dangerous look. Koga promised Liam if he could beat this Arbok he would give him the badge right after the fight, so as soon as this Arbok came out it loudly hissed at Shadow.

Shadow just turned his head away from him pretending to not have heard its threats. Koga told Liam that this Arbok is a special kind of Arbok and has quite a temper, so we should do our best at this match otherwise they would regret it.

Liam nodded and was thinking that he will no longer pull punches in battles. Liam started the battle by having Shadow use Calm Mind to raise his special stats and then he had him do Agility. After that Koga noticed Shadow was buffing up and decided to interrupt him by having Arbok Tackle Shadow.

As soon as Arbok made contact with Shadow, Shadow used Shadow Movement causing Arbok to go right through him and as soon as Arbok passed through Shadow, Shadow grabbed his tail and started swinging him around and used the momentum to throw Arbok straight into the air.

Arbok had gotten confused from all the spinning and when he was thrown into the air he was defenseless to do anything because he couldn't fly as well or defend himself due to the confusion. Shadow took advantage of this and charged up a Shadow Ball, and unleashed it in the air doing some damage to Arbok.

Just when Arbok had felt the pain and had awakened from his confusion he noticed that a Hyper Beam was also coming his way so he also charged up and unleashed his Hyper Beam. They clashed against each other causing a huge explosion with smoke all over the place.

Arbok couldn't see anything through the smoke so Shadow flew up and used a Steel Wing Attack on Arboks face and then blasted Arbok with an Ice Bean, freezing Arbok into an ice block and falling into the ground as the ice shattered all over the place. As soon as Arbok recovered he could sense danger and looked up in the sky.

A huge Flamethrower attack was coming his way, he tried to dodge it but slipped on a piece of ice and was burned beyond reasoning. Koga was trying to give orders to Arbok to escape but the fire expanded and then started to turn into a Fire Spin trapping Arbok into the loop.

Koga knew that this was a losing battle so he gave up causing Liam to just cancel out the Fire Spin Attack. Arbok fell on the ground burnt like a snake meal, he had fainted a while ago. Koga was shocked by the strength that Liam displayed, and even Liam himself was shocked by the strength Shadow had shown today.

Liam had no idea that Shadow had gotten this strong because he had not trained with him for more than a month now and was starting to get excited at the thought of how strong his other Pokemons were going to get after they come back from the two months of training.

The battle had ended just like that, Koga figured there's no point in fighting anymore after seeing what Shadow did and rewarded Liam with his 7th badge. Liam gladly accepted the badge and thanked Koga for the battle before leaving to go get Shadow healed up and grabbed something to eat and rest for the night.

The next day he spots Bill right when he exits the center, Bill came and asked for Liam's help. Liam agreed because he didn't have anything to do at the moment because he knew they were probably still fixing the Viridian City gym. Bill then starts to give info on a location called the Sevii Islands.

There are seven Sevii Islands in total. The Sevii Islands contain legendary Pokemon and Pokemon from the Johto region. Liam was excited about capturing some Johto Pokemon because that was his favorite series in his past life and he had hoped to meet the three legendary dogs.

Lugia was also one of his favorite Pokemons and wondered whether Shadow would be okay meeting that Lugia for the first time since he remembered when Shadow saw the feather of Lugia he freaked out. They took a speed ship and they arrived on the first Sevii Island, also known as Knot Island.

Bill took Liam to the Pokemon Center and led him to a huge machine with his friend, Celio, standing next to it. Bill told Liam that the machine is broken, and he needed him to find the parts to fix the machine. He gave him a Meteorite from Mt. Moon, a Tri-Pass for ferries to get the One, Two, and Three Island, and a new addition to his Town Map that contains a map of the Sevii Islands.

Liam decided to get some rest and head out the next day. Liam could be seen the next day climbing up a mountain. He met a couple of trainers that wanted to battle him so he used that opportunity to train Kangaskhan and after two days he had almost reached the top where there were a lot of danger signs saying that it was dangerous to go any further due to the sightings of dangerous Pokemon.

Liam knew what dangerous Pokemon they were referring to and that was the legendary Pokemon Moltres. Due to the heat that was emulating from the volcanic energy Moltres had made a home in that area and due to Moltres being there it made the place even hotter and nobody wanted to go up that mountain.

Liam continued up the mountain while training. On the third day after battling a lot of mountain Pokemons, he found a hot spring late in the evening and decided to go and bathe in it to relax his body. He noticed nobody was there and took off his clothes and took a dip. 10 minutes later he can hear sounds of women coming but since he was in a meditative relaxed state he didn't notice till they got close enough to see him.

Just when he was about to get out they also noticed him. Liam was about to apologize when they stopped him and told him to just relax and that they would come and join him soon