Dawn of Pokémon

Speaking of Cerulean City [Japanese: ハナダシティ, Hanada_City, English: Cerulean_City], its public impression can be called "the city of flowers and water."

Hualan City is built on the ancient Hualan Mountain, a dormant volcano. It has many large and small natural hot springs and is famous as a hot spring tourist resort with a long history.There are countless hot spring streets or hot spring hotels in the city, attracting foreign tourists to experience the charm of relaxing hot springs.

Due to the geothermal energy brought by the volcano, this city of flowers and water feels like spring all year round, with a pleasant climate. Flowers bloom all year round in the city. The name "Hualan" was also thought to come from "Flower Blue".In fact, the entire Hualan City and its surrounding land are covered in thick volcanic ash, and the endless flower fields on the outskirts are very spectacular. In fact, this is because such land cannot grow other crops except flowers and sweet potatoes.

Therefore, in addition to the iconic flower fields, there are surprisingly many small shops selling roasted sweet potatoes in Hualan City. Some stalls even have signs of "Century-old Shop", which is ridiculous.

The Hualan River, which flows through the volcanic ash field, has a surge in water volume during heavy rains, causing flooding almost every year due to its diversion.However, precisely because of the instability of the Hualan River, the swamps and wetlands formed by its frequent diversions have dotted the entire city. The river's sparkle and flowers blooming all over the city have become the famous beauty of Hualan City.

In this old tourist city, it is not uncommon to see a large number of questionable hotels and small hotels that prey on tourists; dense crowds and mixed crowds are probably unavoidable problems in every tourist city.However, the orthodox old hot spring hotels are still famous, and coupled with the unique scenery in the city, many newlyweds are still willing to travel here.

1 month 20 day.

Just after early morning, Xiaoye entered this blue city.Whether it's a flower shop, a hot spring hotel or a sweet potato shop, the roof of every building is painted a turquoise blue, contrasting with the colorful flowers in the large and small flower beds along the street.

Along the way, Xiaoye was stuffed with a lot of leaflets from various hotels.Although hot springs, sushi and Japanese-style houses sounded tempting, after looking at the price of 15000pd a day, Saya wisely decided to go to the Pokémon Center.

In addition to hot spring hotels, Hualan City's bicycle shops are also quite famous.The most popular sports bike among trainers is the Flame Horse brand - said to be a company owned by the well-known financial family Igarashi - which is lightweight and durable, and has two speed gears, making it an excellent travel means of transportation.

Standing under the exquisite signboard of "Flame Horse Bicycle" and looking through the floor-to-ceiling display window, Xiaoye saw the best-selling model of bicycle placed in front of the window.The entire body is in bright fiery red, and the streamlined shape is full of sporty beauty.

Price: 1000000pd

Current deposit: 27334pd

Night:"……"

Why is an ordinary bicycle so expensive? Is it a BMW? ?

Well, it's from the Flame Horse brand.

Thinking that the price of bicycles in the original game seemed so outrageous, Xiaoye lost her temper.As expected, it would be nice to take a look at such a luxury product.

Walking on the street surrounded by flower beds, it took a lot of effort for Xiaoye to escape from the over-enthusiastic clerk - if she was really dragged into those exquisitely decorated flower shops, she might go bankrupt today. .

After walking through the city for nearly an hour, Xiaoye finally arrived at the Pokémon Center in the city center.After handing the three Poké Balls to Miss Joy and completing the accommodation procedures, Xiao Ye happily walked into the familiar standard single room of the Pokémon Center.

After seeing the terrible prices on so many hotel signs, Xiaoye felt that it would be better to stay free.

While waiting for the Pokémon's strength to recover, Saya once again took out Taki's lost notepad to kill time.Sitting on the bed, Xiaoye stared carefully at the last page of the notepad that she had read many times along the way.Among the messy writing on the paper, only the middle line can vaguely make out a string of numbers "1000.1.20", which probably refers to the date "January 1000, 1", which is today.

Thinking of Team Rocket's behavior, what was written on this notepad might be some illegal action plan.However--

xxこうxxx, 1000.1.20, セxxx. (X-ray xx, 10000120, time xx.)

In the end, Xiao Ye could only barely make out these scattered characters with unclear meanings.

Sure enough, let's leave it to the police.

The distance between the police station and the Cerulean Gym is not far. You can take the notepad to the police station when the gym battle is over.Although Xiaoye felt that such things would only be thrown aside by Miss Junsha as ghost drawing charms.

When the reminder sounded that the treatment was over, Xiaoye went to the front desk to receive three Poké Balls and started walking towards the Hualan Gym.

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The elf calendar is 999 years old.

"Congratulations on passing the Cerulean Gym test. This is the blue badge. Please accept it."

The pink-haired woman smiled and handed the metal badge in her hand to the boy.

As one of the three famous Hualan sisters, Mudan is undoubtedly a very beautiful woman, and her smile is also charming.However, the young trainer boy didn't seem to accept this at all.

"Eh... Is that all?"

The young man showed his disappointment unabashedly on his face.

"Sorry..." Mudan, who was a little embarrassed, smiled apologetically, but the boy's friend interrupted her unspoken words.

"Alright alright, let's go."

Seeing the two teenagers pushing each other away, Mudan just breathed a sigh of relief when she heard their voices coming from the two men.

"I told you that you would be disappointed, but you didn't believe it."

"Ugh... I have never encountered such a bad gym. I'm sorry, if I had known I would have dragged you away."

"The Hualan Gym has always been like this. I am a native of Hualan City, so I know this place very well."

"Eh, all the time?"

"Well, ever since those three sisters became gym leaders. There are three of them, but they always say perfunctory things like 'the main Pokémon have been defeated and are being treated.' Even the so-called main force is very weak. He doesn’t give trainers serious advice at all.”

"That's so bad. He's obviously the owner."

"Right? And he often closes his business to perform water ballet. Really, if you don't have the motivation, don't be a gym owner. Wouldn't it be better to go directly to the entertainment industry? If you insist on taking advantage of the benefits of being a gym owner, I would be embarrassed outside. Say I’m from Cerulean City.”

The smile on Peony's face has long since disappeared.

How could she not know that the two children deliberately turned up the volume so that she could hear these words?In fact, similar criticism has never stopped since the three of them took office.

Mudan still remembers how happy and expectant the young people of Hualan City were when they heard that their hometown could finally have a gym three years ago.However, now all expectations have turned into disappointment and rejection.

It was me... who made them sad.

"peony--"

Following the sound, she turned around and saw her other two sisters, Sakura and Iris, waving to her.

"The battle is finally over. This has been dragging on for a really long time." Calamus looked at the pool that had become turbid due to the battle, "Mudan, you are really the best, why don't you lose as soon as possible? Anyway, we always I will spend money every month to buy the winning rate.”

The eldest sister Sakura stared at her younger sister for a moment, smiled, and patted Peony on the shoulder, "Let's go, the performance time is about to start, it's okay if we don't prepare well."

"Well, that's what I said."

"and also--"

Seeing Mudan raise her head in confusion, Sakura pinched her sister's face and said, "In one year at most, we will be able to save enough money."

That's right, as the young man said just now - the entertainment industry is their ultimate goal.However, for the three sisters from ordinary families, this road is too difficult.How can you stand on the shining stage if you can't even buy a beautifully crafted skirt?

They love dancing from the bottom of their hearts and hope that more people can see their dancing.That's why they chose this path.

The welfare of the owner gave them the right to use the Hualan Gymnasium. After several years of careful management, it has become a gathering place for audiences who love water ballet.As for the work of the gym owners themselves - they only spent a very small amount of time training their Pokémon, and they could barely pass the gym owner's test. It is understandable that they are considered "the weakest gym in Kanto" .

——But, so what?

"So, let's work hard for today's performance! For our dream."

"……Um!"

It doesn't matter even if he is spurned by countless trainers and considered weak.There are always ups and downs on the road to pursuing dreams, as long as the original belief remains unwavering——

The water is sparkling and the music is flying.Three graceful figures danced in the waves.

"Thank you very much for coming to watch the water ballet performance. The three Hualan sisters are here to thank you..."

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Hualan Gym stands on the east coast of the city.The building was more like a gymnasium than a gym.The silver steel frame structure supports the huge spherical dome, and shouts are constantly coming from it.

A long signboard is erected in front of the gymnasium: "Three beautiful sisters, water ballet, will take you into a dreamland where your heart beats wildly and joyfully."

Sure enough.

Standing in front of the sign, Xiaoye sighed.It has long been heard that the leader of Hualan Gym is more focused on performing water ballet than running the gym, and now it seems that this is indeed the case.

Thinking about Xiaozhi's experience in the animation, Xiaoye could only silently pray that she could challenge the gym normally instead of being given a badge.

After spending 800pd to buy the admission ticket, Xiaoye found a random seat in the rows of seats and sat down.Under the dome, the water of the blue swimming pool was clear. The audience sat around the swimming pool and burst into excited cheers from time to time.

In the middle of the pool.Three young women wearing bright-colored swimsuits and flippers danced lightly to the waltz played in the museum.The music seemed to be coming to an end, and three beautiful dancers performed back-to-back moves for the encore.

"Thank you very much for coming to watch the water ballet performance. The three Hualan sisters are here to thank you..." The beautiful female voice echoed throughout the audience.

With deafening cheers, the audience began to leave, and the stadium seemed a bit chaotic for a while.In the chaotic crowd, Xiao Ye tried her best to stand on tiptoes and look around.

At the edge of the swimming pool, a long and narrow passage was vaguely visible behind the curtain, and a small sign erected next to it had a few words written crookedly on it.

[Challengers please go here. 】

"..." Xiaoye was speechless.

In some sense, it is a miracle that such a perfunctory gym has not been banned.

Because the flow of people after the venue was too dense, Xiao Ye finally arrived at the entrance of the gym with difficulty after squeezing in the tidal wave of people for a long time.

Walking in the long and dark passage, Xiao Ye faintly heard vague human voices and explosions from the collision of moves.

There was probably an earlier challenger who had already started fighting.With this thought in mind, Xiao Ye opened the door.Walk out of the passage.

What appeared in front of him was a swimming pool that was much smaller than the previous performance venue, and two Pokémon were fighting fiercely in the center of the pool.The shadow ball collided with the freezing beam, causing a shock wave that swept through the room with chills.

"Well done, Eevee!"

The energetic voice of the young man resounded throughout the venue, and his stubbornly raised golden hair danced in the wind.