I dismiss the notifications to think about them ter before rushing over to Skadi.

  “Skadi, are you alright baby?” I look her over for any injuries and besides some bed fur on her beautiful white tails I don’t see any visible injuries. Sighing in relief, I gently pet her head. “You did wonderfully for your first battle. Don’t worry about getting hit, I wasn’t expeg the quick response of Fletg.”

  “Pix! Vul Vulpix!” Skadi looks at me and shakes her head quickly as if denying my cims. She gestures to herself with her tails trying to cim credit for the mistake.

  “Alright, let’s agree to disagree and say it was both our faults.” I smile wryly as Skadi nods at me satisfied with my answer. “Well that just means we will try to train while we travel. Even though getting hurt will happen, I don’t want to see you all banged up.”

  “Vulpix!” Skadi excims loudly as she agrees with me.

  I start to stand back up and notice that the bed hair is already starting to disappear while I was talking to her. I tilt my head slightly, curious about what was happening but then shrugged it off as I could ask Grandpa ter once I reach Viridian City.

  “Now, how about we meet our new little friend and vince her to join us?” I grab Fletgs pokeball and hit the button to allow her to exit the pokeball. In a small fsh of light, the tiny bird is now standing in front of me. Her wings are still slightly frozen, but I see the ice slowly reg.

  “Ling?” The tiny bird chirps while looking around. When it finally spots Skadi a hops back warily. “Fletch! Fletg!”

  I squat back down so I’m not t over her. “Hi there. I’m sorry for attag you like that, I was excited to catch a pokemon. If you don’t mind, would you like to travel with me?”

  The tiny robin stares at me for a little bit before nodding and chirps cheerfully. “Ling~!”

  I smile at the little bird before holding my hand out towards it. Flteg looks at my hand and then hops into it as I start to stand up. I cup my hands and I ow feel just how warm it is in my hands. It feels like a hand warmer that I used to use in the winter ba earth. It was f but still slightly hot on my skin. Fletg oher hand, seemed to like the slight amount of iergy I gave off as it settled down into my hand. “Now for a name for you, I ’t keep calling you little one as you will grow big and strong. How about Zephyr? It meale wind.”

  Fletg seems to think for a moment before chirping in agreement at my choice of name. I gently move her to my shoulder so I free up my hands and pull out my phone again. I opehe Pokedex app and res Zephyr. I skip past the information that was already provided and look at the abilities and moves.

  [This Fletg has the ability of Big Pecks]

  [Fletg currently knows the moves: Growl, Peck, Defog, Quick Attack, Ember]

  Looking at Zephyr's move set my eyes widen slightly. Uhe games, where a pokemon only learn four moves, it seems like pokemo limited to what they learn. I also realize that I was quite lucky in catg Zephyr as she was much strohan Skadi, we only won because of a surprise attack.

  Now that everything was settled, I decided it was time to get bader way to Viridian. I started walking again with Skadi beside me and Zephyr on my shoulder. I look around for a while to see if anything else is going to pop out at us while we are walking. After seeing nothing after about thirty minutes, I tip my head bad y eyes, trusting my pokemon to alert if something happens, and enjoy the quiet sounds of the trail and the sun on my fabsp;

  Since my Aura awakehe sun itself never felt quite as warm as it did when my bloodliivated. I believe the iergy I emit is dampening the direct effect of the sun. I have noticed, on days where it is more humid or raining, I seem to have almost a diamond dust effect around me from where the iergy has created tiny ice crystals that melt ohey move away. The effely happens within an iny skin so it isn’t really noticeable unless you are paying attention to it.

  When someone asks about the little bit of sparkle on me I just cim that I was wearing some glitter, not that I o wear any makeup anymore. ing to this world and the ges since have caused my skin to bee enviously perfect. There are no blemishes or freckles, small pores and always silky smooth and soft. I hear the envy from the girls ba earth about it now. Not to mention that my hair has bee super low maintenance. I only o lightly brush it and it behaves the way I want. No friz, n bed head, no tangles. It also has this natural glossy sheen to it, elevating my already unnatural beauty to another level.

  I might not be a narcissist, but I will say that I am hot. If I was a character in a ese webnovel, I would have been described as a jade beauty in all sorts of flowery words. I look like one of those photoshopped models that you see in magazines and on Insta. With that thought in mind, I decided to open up Pokegram and finish setting up my profile.

  I don’t put a lot of information in my profile yet, just that I just started as a trainer. I will add more as it bees relevant but that was enough for now. I take a few moments taking some selfies until I find ohat I like the most to use as my profile picture. I flick through the different filters to see what is avaible, but almost all of them seem to screw up my natural looks instead of enhang them. I did find ohat gave me fox ears and a tail. I decided to use that filter and pced it as the first picture on my page. I also took a picture holding Skadi and Zephyr and posted it as well. I’m not expeg much from it as I am still an unknown trainer. Ba earth I wasly an Insta star and only used it to keep in toud share pictures with my friends.

  After posting, I decided to scroll through Pokegram to see if any of the notable trainers I remember are oo follow. First person I search for is the one whose theme song still sends shivers up my spine, thia. It only took a few seds as she was the first person to pop up when I searched her name. From what her profile says she is turning twenty six this year and is known as the you Champion. She is just as beautiful in real life as she was in the anime, if her pictures are to be believed. The few others I remember off the top of my head are Elesa, Bea, Marnie and Lorelei. The only ones I was actually able to find were Lorelei and Elesa as they are part of the league. I guess that Bea and Marnie were too young currently or are unknown.

  Putting away my phone, I looked around cheg where we were. We were still a few hours away from Viridian and not another soul in sight. Taking this time, I decide to spin the gacha to see what I might get.

  [gratutions host, you have received the Yuna special.]

  *Spt*

  Zephyr was startled and tumbled off my shoulder due to my ne. I sigh deeply and wipe the cake that just appeared off my face. I should have guessed that something like this would happen. I had fotten that I got this system from Yuna. After wiping away what I could, I look around for a stream or something to wash myself off in. Luckily there was a river nearby. I head over to the river and kneel down to wash my face. While I am busy washing, Skadi decides to jump on my back pyfully and causes me to fall into the water.

  The water was a delightful temperature so I quickly finished washing my fad got out of the water. I pyfully gre at Skadi and she just smirks at me. “Brat…” I mutter under my breath. Not b to dry myself, despite my clothes stig tightly to my skin, I get bader way. Now that my fun surprise is done, I decided to spin the gacha once more. It’s not like I would get caked again, right? Shaking my head at the thought I spin the gacha once more.

  [gratutions host, you have received an Ice Silk Qipao.]

  [Ice Silk Qipao: This item is specially made from the Ice Silkworm. The fabric of this dress gees a miniscule amount of iergy. Ahat wears this dress will be slightly cooled.]

  In front of me, a beautiful ice blue ese styled dress appears in front of me. It has silvery snowfkes embossed on it and a leg slit on the right leg where my thigh bag would sit. There is also a pair of matg skill shoes that appear with it. I quickly grab the dress before it fall to the ground and hug it tightly to my chest like it is the most precious thing ever. As I hold the dress I feel the little bit of iergy that it emits that my body seems to absorb. It is not nearly as much as my Aura, but I have the feeling I could wear this and not have to look like a te w girl.

  I quickly take off the tiny pieces of fabric that I had to sider as my clothes and toss them on the ground. I grab the dress and take a moment to figure out how to put it on. As I start to slip it on over my head, I feel some drops of water start to hit my naked body, remindihat I am not wearing anything in an open area. My face flushes as I speed up getting the dress on.

  O was on, I took off my sneakers and slipped og silk shoes. Once I was fully dressed, I could feel the effect of the dress keeping my body cool. I was still warmer than I was with my previous clothes, but not unbearably so. I wouldn’t want to test my lu some pce like Mt. ey or Alo, but in the average temperature of Kanto it was fine. I took a moment to ge my hairstyle slightly from my normal high ponytail to tight bun, with my bangs still framing my face. I sigh in te at the fact that I no longer feel the wind caressing most of my body. I finally felt normal again.

  A few more raindrops fall and wake me from my revelry. I look up to see the sky turning dark with an ining storm. I quickly pack up my clothes and sneakers into my bag, which by some wonder of teology holds way more than it should, and start a light jog towards the city in the distance. As I make my way, the rain starts falling harder and the sky gets nearly as dark as night except for some fshes from lightning. I take pity on Zephyr a her rest in her pokeball as I find a tree to take shelter from the storm.

  I stand uhe tree, petting Skadi zily as I tio watch the sky waiting for the storm to pass. The storm only seems to get stronger as time goes on until suddenly in the distance, closer to Viridian from where I am, aremely bright fsh of lightning occurs. The fsh is sht it is almost like a sed sun at about tree top level. A few minutes after the lightning, the storm starts to dissipate into the distance leaving behind damp ground and a few puddles as well as a rainbow.

  I look towards the rainbow just in time to see a phoenix-like bird that is seemingly gold in color. I quickly let out Zephyr and nudge Skadi so that they both look up and when they do I almost see the awe in their eyes.

  “That, my dear little dies, is Ho-oh the guardian of the skies.” I whisper to them with a good bit of awe leaking into my voice. I k ossible that I could experiehe same situation as Ash did in the anime, but actually seeing and experieng the slight bit of aura from the legendary pokemo me in plete aatched as Ho-oh flew off into the distand out of sight. O was gone, I noticed that the sun was setting and I only had a few more hours to get to Viridian City before it was too dark to travel.

  Still holding onto my star-struon, I took off at a light jog while maintaining a pace that I could easily endure, simir to a marathon runner. It took us nearly two hours to reach the outskirts of Viridian City. I just crested the st hill as the sun fully set and I could see the city ing to life for the night. I took a few mio recover from the extended exercise I just pleted. I didn’t feel anymore wihan I normally would have after one of my workouts which I was ever thankful for deg to do.

  I let out Skadi again and the two of us walked into the city and towards the pokemoer. In this world, pokemoers are league owned and Joy operated hospitals and hotels for active trainers. Active trainers do not o spend anything to stay at a ter but you might not get the room. They are made fh amounts of traffic so you ormally expect the minimum amount of ameo be avaible in the room itself.

  Skadi and I take in the sights of a city at night. For Skadi, this is the first time she has seen something like this so she is looking around curiously. As for me, I am enjoying the differeween my memories and my new reality. I didn’t feel the differences quite as much when I was living in Pallet town as I lived in a rural unity ba earth, part of why I was excited to head to Niagara Falls. Yet now that I was in an urbanized area, the differences were drastibsp;

  The first difference was the smell. Cities oh, no matter where you go, always have this smell of burnt fossil fuels. The smell is so om that you don’t even realize it is there. Here, there is no usage of fossil fuels as people have learned how to use pokemon as an alternative source of energy. This means that all vehicles are electrically powered. Now the smell of humans still exists, I don’t think that smell would ever go away. Dark alleys that smelled of trash, both biological and manufactured, urine, and sour alcohol. Wherever humans gather, so do those sts.

  The other major difference I could tell is the lights. Oh, city lights produce a ton of light pollution and be nearly as bright as daylight in pces. Here in Viridian City, the lights are drastically toned down so as to not disrupt pokemon. They still produough light to see but it is angled and colored differently than the xenon or led lights of earth. Everything is lit up in a fashion simir to full moonlight, like the Moon Towers in Texas that I had heard about.

  It took us ahirty minutes of slowly walking through the city to finally reach the Poketer. The ter was one of the only pces that did not to the lighting of the rest of the city. The way the lights were positioned around the Poketer reminded me of the hotels in Vegas where they shine bright spotlights straight up to attract attention. The roof was a bright red color and had a ft spot in the ter where flying pokemon could nd. I don’t think I could ever miss a Poketer in a city, which I suppose was iional. I reached the Poketer a few moments ter and passed through the front doors.