The Ruined Town (8)

Lily, Austin, and the two A ranks made there way to the century old Pokemart. Austin was thinking how lucky he would be to get an ultra ball then catch a dragonite or something. Lilly wished they could find some pearls or nuggets.

The two A ranks were sighing at their misfortune. First it was dangers of the forest where they almost lost their lives. Then came a giant beast that can easily topple their Pokemon. It was clearly getting harder to protect themselves, let alone the young miss. They just hoped nothing else will go wrong.

"Austin what do you dream of being when you grow up?" As they were walking towards the market Lily suddenly asked.

"Why do you wanna know?" Austin was a little surprised at the question. He question back.

"I was just curious, I mean kids our age usually don't want to leave the city state. They also forced into becoming trainers like in your case or born in a family that forces them to become trainers. The latter is even worse than the former.

Most trainers don't have dreams except surviving. I made a friend in Sinnoha, who wants to be the best Pokemon breeder as a B-class sub-profession. I want to be the strongest trainer to protect Kaldia.

So what about your dream?" Lily asked with interest as then stopped infront of the entrance.

"Hmm... what is a B-class sub profession?" Austin asked.

"I can't tell you? You will find out from your city-state's gym leader. Honest the only thing I can say is that B-tank is a whole different world as compared to C-rank. That's when you can truly say you are a trainer. Now your goal!!!" Lily answered a bit annoyed at Austin. He picks at even the smallest detail said. No wonder the gym leader assigned him to join us.

"My dream is simple. Becoming strong is necessary for it. I want to be the best Pokemon Professor. Like the top researcher of the past professor oak. A Pokemon professor studies Pokemon in detail so traveling will also be included.

I also want to know the truth of the world. What happen a hundred years ago? What changes truly occurred and why?

There are many unanswered questions. I want to know why and solve them." Austin replies shocking Lily. The thing Austin wants is the most despised profession of their time. He also wants to know the truth. Something even her father didn't know completely.

No wonder this kid was much more talented than was let on. His goals are equally high which alway forced him to try his best.

'Boooooomm!'

While the two were conversing, Grey had Charzard melt the door down without damaging anything else. Austin was focused at his surroundings and wasn't too surprised by the noise. He was however shocked at the level of control Charzard had with his element.

The group entered into the market. It was basically like any other market with the average shelves greeting the customers. The bathroom and the stock room at the back. The cashier in the top left corner.

Most of the things on the shelf were food that long went stale or rotten. Some shelf's were broken. Even the cashier desk was broken. There was a few functioning pokeballs and 2 great balls.

The group decided to collect everything in one bag before splitting it. Austin walked towards the cash area. Lily and the rest began surveying the broken glass cabinets on the other end.

Austin had combusken and open the cash register. He found a lot coins still in good condition. He also found a few gold coins among the batch. A few pokedollars of the past were in mint condition despite the passage of time.

Austin preserved them in his notebook to keep them in good condition. Maybe he can sell some for a good price to collectors. He looked around the shelves behind the cash and only saw a few more pokeballs while the rest of the products were either broken, rotted, or poisonous.

He was going to leave when Sylveon tackled the broken desk out of the way. Revealing a safe. Austin was excited he had combusken slash at the hinges and 'peck the lock'. The safe door was easily breeched by the world class peckpocket Combusken.

Combusken was chirping with happiness as it was praised and rewarded by Austin. It even gave Sylveon a badass smirk causing her to shake her head.

Austin searched the safe and was really happy almost everything was in one peace. Except for some cash that brittle and a few rusted pieces of jewelry, everything else was good. He found a flash memory which he secretly hid in his pendant.

He began to stash in his bag money, gold nuggets, pearls, shards of all type. He even found a working TM. Austin put all the jewelry including the rusted ones that could be salvaged. His greatest satisfaction was that he found two ultra balls.

Austin tidied everything up and went to meet the others. "Hey guys are we ready to check the stock room?" Austin asked.

"You took too long so we checked without you. We found a bunch of awesome things." Lily said.

"I found a safe that's why I took a bit longer than I expected. What did you find in the store room?" Austin asked as Lily's tone made him interested.

Satisfied with Austin's expression, the inexperienced princess spilled the beans before the other two could stop her.

" Well we found 50 pokeballs, 30 great balls, 10 ultra balls that are still functioning. We also found several supplies like razor blades, tissues, and other house holds that didn't rot.

The best part though is we found several evolutionary stones. Mainly of the four main attributes. There were 4 fire stones, three leaf stones, 2 thunderstones and 5 waterstones."

Listening to lily caused Austin to be stunned. Then he laughed with joy. He also told them about his findings.

This caused the group especially lily to become excited. The group were discussing various things excited about their loot. Even Grey and Tony also felt things were turning for the better.

That was until the heard a loud jet like screech.

'Zooooooooooom!'(I guess this is jet like.)