The purpose of the sandstorm was three fold in this situation. First was that it raised Gaia's evasion thanks to her sand veil ability. The sed was that it put the pack of Pooa on a time limit as the lohe fight sted the worse the damage they would take from the sandstorm. The final purpose was to allow Gaia to get more familiar with the move. I was by no means a slow minded person so when I actually izing iece of cake so long as I had a det amount of information.-

  Pokemon were usually pretty smart themselves so the pack also figured out at least the part of the pn that pertaio them pretty quickly. They growled and chuffed in irritation but refused to run away from the battle because this was their territory and we were the trespassers. I had assumed something like this would be true iy so I wasn't surprised. I had never doubted the intelligence of pokemon but I had theorized before my transmigration that they would still behave much more like animals than people. Perhaps this was only true for some species but for now the theory held.-

  Left with little choi the matter one of the members of the pack grew impatient and glowed white again as it charged Gaia. Almost faster than my eye could follow Gaia side stepped the Pooa and sank down on top of it with her open maw. A siing "ch!" sounded out moments ter and the Pooa went limp. Gaia immediately let go of the corpse a back to her waiting position. The other four members of the pack grew irritated and anxious seeing this and when the slightly rger member who I assume to be the leader let out a sound they all attacked at once.-

  Gaia calmly watched on as they charged her with the white glow of the move on them and then did something that surprised me. A white glow shone on her mouth and she lunged forward with her mouth open. Instantly a wide energy proje of her mouth appeared in from of the real thing and closed around the whole body of one of the Pooa. The unfortunate creature was immediately crushed spttering blood and ans from both ends. 'Do you mean to tell me she hasn't even been using the move this whole time!?' I thought in shock.-

  Sure I had wondered why the tackle from the pack had a glow whetack didn't but it had never dawned ohat Gaia was one shotting pokemon with only the raw strength of her jaws this whole time. I mean it sort of made sense given that she literally crushed rocks with those jaws but my experience from the games was starting to interfere with my perception of my new reality a bit. Maybe the pokedex entries implied that such things were actually normal but besides using moves you never actually see any of that.-

  'That reminds me that I o find some way to rey knowledge from the games before it fades from memory.' I thought seriously as Gaia dodged one of the other three attacks but got hit by the other two making her grunt. Before the three remaining members of the pack could retreat however Gaia mao cate of them by the leg and crush it's bones with her jaws. "AR AR AR AR!" the pokemon she caught cried out in pain for a few moments befaia fi off with a bite to the neck rendering the area silent again save for the sandstorm.-

  The st two members of the pack gre at Gaia for a moment before deg to cut their losses and flee rather than stay in what is clearly a death sentence. With a mournful howl from the leader I watch as they run in opposite dires to prevent Gaia from chasing them. Gaia visibly rexes at this point and allows the sandstorm to dissipate. "Good job Gaia! Now lets get htful prize." I said and she nods with a happy "Lar!".-

  Walking over to the berry bush I reach out and hold one of the oran berries in my hand. It's a dark blue color tangerine shaped fruit with a apple like feel to it that was also about the size of an e. Carefully snapping the small but sturdy e between the fruit and bush I hand it to Gaia who immediately tossed it into her mouth. I thehe five minutes carefully plug half the remaining fruits and st them in the berry partment of the bag giviotal of three orans for ter.-

  Gaia reached level seven from that battle meaning we merely o get three more levels for her and find a water source to finish the quest. "Alright Gaia lead the way to the water and keep a for stuff to fight. We don't o kill all of our oppos but if they don't look like they think the same don't hesitate to end them." I say seriously and Gaia nods in agreement. We start walking in the dire we were inally going and I got more and more holes in my socks as they got caught on sticks and stones.-

  It was quite painful for me but I powered through it as we walked and soon I heard the sound of moving water and kneere getting close. As much as I wao rush the rest of the way I knew doing so would be a bad idea aed that urge. This proved to be a good thing as when we finally caught sight of the source of the sound I had to stop Gaia from going forwards as there at the edge of the stream was a group of seven Wingull.-

  I remembered the sheer amount of headaches these things caused me pying emerald with my Torchic starter. They were one of the few pokemon species that collectively had access to aal attack immediately , specifically water gun. That move was four times super effective against Gaia since she was a rod ground type until her final evolution that was a rod dark type. I was not sure what a super effective move actually did iy but sidering the sheer number of the Wingull here I didn't want to either. "Lets move up the stream to see if there's a spot without these things." I say seriously. Gaia while skeptiy over what looked to be pos cooperates.-

  Luckily for us we found the source of the stream at the foot of the mountain and it was almost totally unoccupied save for the small group of three Pidgey that Gaia knocked out but didn't kill. The source of the stream seemed to be the run off from the ice of the mountaiing and flowing down. Gaia an I helped ourselves to the crystal clear water and I even took a moment to rinse off some of the caked o and dirt on me.