Chapter 29

The first thing I had to take care of before heading to the Pokemon Centre, was buy a certain pair of items. Well, not just them, with the capture of Charmander, I was officially out of pokeballs.

Finding where to get a prism scale wasn't hard at all, anyone on the street could tell me where to find one, and a nice old man walking his Zigzagoon was nice enough to point me in the direction of the local jewelers.

The bad news, was that, as people had warned me, they were pretty damn expensive. Just one cost me five thousand pokedollars. Pricey, even for damn jewelry. Apparently, according to the guy in the shop at least, it was because they were generally so damn rare outside of port towns or places with access to the ocean.

I felt jittery dropping so much money at once. I'd never spent that much on one thing before. Which made my trip to the local Pokemart all the more horrible.

The good news there, was that, they did have Water Stones. And of course they had pokeballs in stock. The horrifying problem was, that a single Water Stone costed ten thousand pokedollars. And the price of pokeballs, were going for average, no deals on, so they were at two hundred pokedollars a pop.

...I had forgotten that prices tended to vary here, not like the games. and that while trainers made a lot of money when winning, they also had to spend a lot of money to continue doing so.

I ended up dropping a full sixteen thousand all said and done when I had gotten a hold of everything I wanted. Five thousand for the prism scale, ten thousand for the water stone and another thousand for five pokeballs.

Instead of heading to the pokemon centre, I found myself trudging off into a local park, and collapsing onto a park bench heavily, a massive sigh heaving from my throat as I leaned forward, and stared down at the single item I had been clutching in a death grip since I left the shop behind.

It was a beautiful, deep cerulean blue rock, with glowing spheres that looked like bubbles within it. It was a beautiful natural wonder. "..Jesus christ man," I shook my head as I stared at it, "I can't believe I spent so damn much on a freaking rock."

I'd dropped from having over seventeen thousand, to only having a thousand, three hundred and fifty. It was well enough for me to get by on right now, especially with room and board at the pokemon centre being free. But fuck, I spent a god damn lot.

Or at least, I'd be as low as nearly a thousand if it weren't for the winnings I got off of Cross, nearly a total of three thousand. Mostly because, he was an older trainer, who had way more badges than me, so I got a decent bit out of beating him. So in total, I had four thousand, three hundred and seventeen pokedollars left over.

Thank fuck for that scrub.

I eyed the water stone in my hand thoughtfully.

Sighing, I leaned back against the bench for a moment, before grabbing one of the pokeballs from my belt and enlarging it. With a slight touch to the white button in the middle, it clicked open, and in a flash of silvery bright light, Poliwhirl appeared in front of me.

"Poli." the water type nodded at me, before crossing his arms and waiting for my command.

Ah, Poliwhirl was such a dutiful reliable guy. He made things easy on me.

I held up the stone in my hand, and felt a little thrill shoot through me when the normally calm water pokemon's black eyes widened minutely. "..Poli..?" he uncrossed his arms and held out his hands towards the water stone in my grasp almost reverently.

..Well, I suppose him wanting it makes dumping the money worth it at least. "Want it?" I asked him.

"Poli!" Poliwhirl nodded vigorously.

"Alright then, here you go mate." I reached out and dropped the stone into his gloved hands.

And immediately, his form erupted into a familiar glowing light.

'..So fucking awesome.' I cheered mentally as I watched his glowing form grow half again in height, while bulking out massively. I don't think I'll ever get tired of seeing a pokemon evolve. It's just amazing to see, and the palpable power I can feel in the air, stinging against my skin made my heart race and my blood thrum in my veins.

Seconds later the light died down, to reveal Poliwhirl gone, and Poliwrath in his place.

"Wrath!" the now water and fighting type growled audibly, clenching his hands into fists as he was revealed to me, and I watched in awe as his biceps rippled with powerful, thick muscle.

The Water Stone was completely gone too, how odd, not that it matters now, because more importantly, "Damn mate, you're jacked as fuck," I laughed, "Feeling alright?"

Poliwrath looked me in the eye and nodded once, before raising his hand and flashing me a thumbs up, "Poliwrath!" he assured me he was doing good.

I held out my hand, "Put it there mate!" I said, and he happily clapped his palm into my own, and god his hands were massive, I mean I know I'm in a younger body right now, but one of his hands was like five times the size of mine.