บท 37: Taking Lessons (Edited)

Axel had a dazed look on his face. This is a word that he had not heard before. Axel had only watched the early seasons of anime and played early games. So there might be a lot that he didn't know about.

He had heard of big things like Mega stones, Z-moves and other things, but not all the things. So he didn't know about infinity energy (Infinity energy is something that is described in Pokemon games. This is not created by the author)

Seeing such a look on his face, Mark smiled even more and said "Before I say anything about it, why don't we go somewhere quiet. There are a lot of things that I have to teach you. And thanks, Peter, you are now excused", saying that both of them went somewhere quiet in the forest.

It was not difficult to find such a place here. There was a rectangular table with chairs near the tree. A small wooden cottage could be seen.

"This is my personal farmhouse. It is small, I know, but this is where I go when I want to be alone. Make yourself comfortable, I will come with some honey tea.", saying that Elder Mark went inside the cottage.

Axel sat on one of the chairs and let all of his Pokemons out. Nidoran, Shedinja, Weedle, Gogoat, and Charmander. Everyone greeted Axel and started doing their own things. Gogoat was just sleeping and minding his own business. Weedle was curious about the whole forest and was roaming around. Nidoran and Shedinja had become quite close now.

They started to talk to each other and sometimes would train together too. Charmander was just the same naughty kid. Axel didn't mind Charmander, cause it takes 3 months for a Pokemon to come out of the baby stage, and Charmander was 1.5 months old. Shedinja has become a sort of leader of the group. It was one of the strongest in the group and it seemed to be quite wise. Axel could see Shedinja lecturing Charmander but he didn't know what it was saying.

While looking at his Pokemon, Mark arrived with a tray filled with 2 cups of tea and some biscuits. "Help yourself, my first outsider, well that is what the young trainers have been calling you these days."

'So my involvement in the family is already spread huh', thought Axel.

"So…" said Axel "Yeesss…?", asked Mark.

"You were going to tell me something about infinity energy.", said Axel.

"Oh! Yes, I was just teasing you, hahaha"

'What a weird guy', thought Axel.

"Before I say anything about infinity energy, let me answer the previous question, that I asked myself. 'Growl' would decrease the attack by one stage. But Scizor was not affected. If you look it closely, certain attacks improve or lower certain stats. Those are called status move.

Like 'Barrier' could increase defense, confide decreases sp.attack of the opponent many more. These attacks though invisible would attack certain parts of the body of the Pokemon which causes the desired effect.

If we could find those weak points and capitalize on them, then the Pokemon could be able to defend against such an attack. That was the reason Scizor could defend the 'Growl' even though Venusaur was a higher-ranked Pokemon."

"Don't get me wrong, if a Pokemon is powerful itself, then it could defend these attacks, no problem, but if we use such methods then, I believe the result would be extremely positive.", added Mark.

"Besides did you also notice that the 'Growl' of Venusaur was very powerful ?", asked Mark.

Axel nodded on this. He didn't know how powerful a complete elemental Pokemon could be but that 'Growl' was powerful.

"Since status moves improve or lower certain stats, we believe that, if the status moves are trained to maximum then it would develop into a psychic type.", said Mark

"What!!!!! Are you sure? So, that 'Growl' was a Psychic type move?", asked Axel.

If this was true then, it would change a lot in the Pokemon world.

'Is this the secret that the Venu family is hiding?', thought Axel.

'If a type could be changed into another type…, this is a huge matter!!', thought Axel.

"Of course not. But that is what I believe. This is the research that I am currently working on actually.", said Peter.

"Ohh.", Axel said in a disappointed voice. This suspense with Venu family's secret was killing him now.

"Aww, don't be disheartened. Why don't I tell you the secret of Venu family then?", said Mark sipping tea.

He was talking as if he was going to give candies to everyone. Except for Peter, non of the people of Venu family seemed nice to Axel.

"Alright, alright, let's get serious. The reason I wanted to talk to you was to actually tell the secrets of Venu family. This has been decided as per the meeting of elders and leader.", said Mark.

Taking a deep breath Mark continued "Do you know about the real origin of the Pokemon world? Do you know about the relationship between a Pokemon Master and Arceus? There are many secrets that have been removed from the history pages.

These truths are only known by the Champions and the Pokemon master. However, the truth has been kept secret from others. Around 700 years ago, the champion of the Kanto region was from Venu family. The truth about the world, about infinity energy, was shared by The Champion to the Venu family. This is the secret of us that the world still doesn't know."

"So, does that mean you know the truth about Pokemon master and Arceus? And all other questions?", asked Axel

"Of course not.", said Mark.

Axel was again disappointed to hear that. He really wanted to know the answer. He felt that he will know the truth about himself and his reincarnation if he found out about it.

"The truth revealed to the Champions is less compared to the truth that is revealed to Pokemon Master. Besides, it has been 700 years, so some of the truths have been scrapped.

However, we do have knowledge about infinity energy and how it originated 3000 years ago during Kalos- Galar war. Now let me tell you about the Kalos - Galar war."