Pokémon Padea Adventure: The Journey Continues

When Mimoli tried to stop Ash and the others from heading to the top of Frost Mountain, Ash replied in confusion.

"Why is that? Miss Mimoli... why don't you let us continue climbing Frost Mountain!"

After Xiaoqing recalled that when they were in the victims' cabin, Mimoli told her that "Frost Mountain" was now in the snow season, she helped Mimoli answer Xiaozhi's question.

"Xiaozhi, first look at the sky above your head..."

Following Xiaoqing's reminder, Xiaozhi looked up at the sky and found that it was covered with dark clouds. He said in surprise.

"Hey! Wasn't the crystallization state lifted? Why is the sky still dark now..."

Xiaoqing continued to explain.

"Xiaozhi, the Frostsmoked Mountain is in the snow season right now. As a ranger, Miss Mimori's job is not only to treat the ice-attribute Pokémon that live here, but also to rescue trainers who stray into this place during the snowy season."

After Xiaoqing's explanation, Xiaozhi realized how big a disaster he almost got into, and then he looked dejected... At this point, Mimoli comforted Xiaozhi.

"It's okay, Xiaozhi. I've lived here for a while. Occasionally, there are trainers like you who stray into the snow season. This is my duty as a forest ranger. I think you can go to other places first. After about a month, the snow season here will eventually end. Then it won't be too late for you to come to the "Frost Wipe Gym" and challenge the gym."

"Besides..., I remember that during the snowy season at Frost Mountain, it should also be the midterm school period for the academy. You should be going back to the academy, so why are you still here?"

At Mimoli's reminder, Papa also slapped his forehead and said.

"Oh, right! Teacher Mimoli is right. It is indeed time to go back to school for the midterm. How could I have forgotten about this?"

"Midterm? Back to school!"

In response to this, Xiaoqing also said with a puzzled look on her face.

"That's strange. How come I don't know about this? Did the college send out any relevant notice?"

As she spoke, Xiaoqing took out her cell phone and checked Rotom. She then saw an unread message in her text message mailbox. After clicking it, she found the notice about "mid-term return to school" mentioned by Mimoli, and she spoke excitedly.

"It's true! Miss Mimoli said it was true. She notified the students who were adventuring outside the school to return to school in a week. The letter was sent... a week ago! Why did I receive this message only now?"

Satoshi and Piper, who also opened their Rotom phones, also received the message sent a week ago and looked at each other in surprise.

Mimoli said angrily.

"Oh no! There's another delay in the communication equipment. It seems that since the Padia Alliance announced its withdrawal from the Padia Pit, electronic communications in the Padia region have been getting worse year by year, until the Padia region is like an isolated island in the Pokémon world. Even the information about overseas regions is delayed. I wonder how long it will take for this situation to be improved!"

In response, Mimoli quickly reminded Xiaozhi and the others.

"Okay, you guys should hurry back to the academy, or else you won't be able to graduate. The road to "Ice Cabinet Town" is blocked by snow during the snowy season, so you should go through "Frost Wiped Hand" and head back to the road in the direction of "Big Pot Lake"! If we survive the snowy season, I will send you a message in advance to prevent you from receiving the message in time!"

After accepting Mimoli's suggestion, Xiaozhi and his friends said goodbye to Mimoli. When they were about to go down the mountain, the whale behind them pounced on Xiaozhi and his friends again.

This time, three trainers including Xiaoqing, Xiaozhi and Papper were all pressed under him. Xiaoqing and the others were unable to breathe. The Pikachu beside them also pushed its body, hoping that the huge body of Whale Watch could leave Xiaoqing and the others.

"Let's go, let's go..."

Zou Jing kept struggling, with tears in his eyes, and seemed unwilling to leave the heavy weight on Xiao Qing and the others.

"Hurry up and get up, you're crushing us..."

"I'm about to be crushed. What happened to the walking whale?"

Xiaozhi and Piper were struggling. Xiaoqing, one of them, looked at the tearful Zou Jing and raised her hand to touch him.

"Zou Jing, are you upset about something? Why don't you let us get up and then we can help you solve it..."

With Xiaoqing's gentle comfort, Zoujing finally got up from the weight he was exerting on Xiaozhi and his group. Xiaoqing continued to comfort Zoujing, but facing Zoujing's continuous wailing, she still could not understand the meaning.

Mimori, who had plenty of experience dealing with the ice-type Pokémon in Frost Mountain, immediately understood Whalebone's behavior and explained it to Aoki.

"Xiaoqing, Whalebone is a Pokémon that lives in groups. It got lost and separated from its companions. After it met you, Xiaoqing, it considered you its companions. It doesn't want to leave you, Xiaoqing. Maybe it wants to become your Pokémon."

Hearing Mimoli's guess, Xiaoqing was stunned at first, then looked at Zoujing and asked tentatively.

"Walking Whale, you want to become my Pokémon and go on adventures with me, is that what you mean?"

"Go, go!"

Walking Whale nodded affirmatively, indicating that what Xiaoqing said was correct. Xiaoqing's face flushed, and she excitedly took out an empty Poké Ball and stretched it in front of Walking Whale. Then Walking Whale, without hesitation, lightly hit the button on the Poké Ball, and Walking Whale, surrounded by red light, was transferred into the Poké Ball.

The red light flashed and there was a shake, once, twice... and with a "bang", Xiaoqing said excitedly after successfully taming the wandering whale.

"Great! I have tamed the Whale!"

After saying goodbye to Mimoli, Xiaozhi and his friends followed her advice, bypassed the "Frost Hand", and headed towards the "Big Pot Lake" to return to school.

After a while, they had left the snowy area of ​​"Frost Mountain". The ice and snow melted along the way, and Xiaozhi and his friends took off their winter clothes and changed into ordinary clothes.

On the way, Xiaoqing found a burnt forest on the side of the road and said to Xiaozhi and Piper.

"Xiaozhi, Papper, look, this is the wildfire that Xiaomei and I put out during our fire prevention patrol... I didn't expect that after just a few days, a lot of green plants have grown on this scorched land. The self-healing ability of nature is amazing! I don't know how Xiaomei is doing. I really hope I can study with her in the academy."

Seeing Xiaoqing looking a little disappointed, Papa immediately changed the subject.

"But Xiaoqing, your progress is even more amazing. From being afraid of any fire Pokémon before, you can now resolve the rift with Tanshi-chan and fight side by side with him. Now, even when you are so close to Xiaozhi's Scorching Crocodile, you still don't show any fear."

After Papper's reminder, Xiaoqing discovered that at some point, the Scorching Crocodile that Xiaozhi had put back into the Poké Ball had come out again.

Looking at the Scorching Crocodile walking on the road, Xiaozhi said with an embarrassed look on his face.

"Hey, the gluttonous Scorching Crocodile was attracted by the sweet aroma of fruits coming from the roadside fruit trees, and ran out secretly."

Just as the scalding crocodile was drooling and about to turn off the road, the scene in front of them shocked Xiaozhi and Piper. The scalding crocodile, which was attracted by the fragrance, suddenly flew into the air. Just as it reacted to its confusion, its body was rotated by a force and faced backwards. It found Xiaoqing looking at it with curiosity from a very close distance.

The distance was so close that the usually carefree Scorching Crocodile felt a little embarrassed. Faced with Xiaoqing's sudden close contact, the Scorching Crocodile felt at a loss as to what to do.

After staring at the face of the Hot Crocodile, Xiao Qing suddenly hugged it in her arms, and then rubbed it face to face madly and intimately. This action scared the Hot Crocodile so much that it screamed repeatedly.

“Dong…, Dongga!”

The frightened Scorching Crocodile kept stretching out its hands towards Xiaozhi, hoping that Xiaozhi could come to save it. Xiaozhi was also confused. After approaching hesitantly, he took the Scorching Crocodile's hands and asked Xiaoqing.

"Xiao Qing, what's wrong with you? Aren't you afraid of the Scorching Crocodile, which is a fire element? Why are you so intimate with me all of a sudden..."

Unexpectedly, after Xiaoqing broke free from Xiaozhi's hand that was holding the Scorching Crocodile, she hugged the Scorching Crocodile tightly in her arms again and answered.

"The Scorching Crocodile is so cute. Why was I afraid of such a cute little thing before?"

Seeing Aing's reaction, Xiaozhi and Papper smiled at each other. It seemed that Aing had really grown up and was not afraid of Fire-type Pokémon at all. However, the accident that happened to her in her childhood was still a mystery.

Before this, the friendly Crocodile always wanted to be close to Xiaoqing, but when faced with such crazy and intimate Xiaoqing, Crocodile felt a little uncomfortable. After struggling hard to break away from Xiaoqing's embrace, it ran behind Xiaozhi and Pikachu like a fly, seeking their protection.

Seeing such a funny scene, everyone burst into laughter. After a while, Xiaozhi and his group came down from the mountain road and arrived at the "Big Pot Lake". On the side of this road is the "Big Pot Lake Waterfall". If Xiaozhi and his group had not been washed out of the "Big Pot Lake" estuary by the wild tyrants in the lake, this road would have been the way they decided to take to climb "Frost Mountain" from the beginning.

When Pikachu and Xiaozhi came to the ground, they turned their heads to look at the bottom of the waterfall. They saw the waterfall hitting a protruding rock below, stirring up layers of water. In the blurry water, a familiar figure came into Xiaozhi and Pikachu's eyes.

Xiaozhi and Pikachu rubbed their eyes in disbelief and looked at each other hoping to get a positive answer from each other.

In the water, a vague figure was sitting cross-legged, silently enduring the baptism of the water... Its spherical body was covered with light yellow hair, its limbs were wearing black rings, its hands had become boxing gloves, and its feet were like human feet, but with only two toes. There was no tail on its back, its eyeballs had become a line, and there was a "cross" of angry and raised veins on its forehead.

Suddenly, the blurry figure was bent by the turbulent water. After struggling for a while, it was finally washed to the bottom of the lake.

Xiaoqing and Piper, who were standing nearby, didn't understand why Xiaozhi and Pikachu were so concerned about training in the waterfall. When they saw each other fall into the water, Xiaozhi and Pikachu immediately shouted in worry.

"Fire..., Infernape!"

"Pickup!"

After saying that, the two of them ran towards each other, and a female voice overlapped with the voice that Xiaozhi and the others shouted. An unknown female figure also ran towards the location where Infernape fell into the water.

"Are you okay, Infernape?"

When Xiaozhi and Pikachu reached the shore, Infernape, who had fallen into the water, swam for a distance underwater, and poked its head out from under the water at the shore, just in time to meet Xiaozhi who had also reached the shore.

When Infernape saw the familiar faces of Ash and Pikachu with sparkling eyes, he was stunned for a moment, then jumped out of the water excitedly, hugged Ash tightly after his body flew into the air, and Ash was also thrown backwards to the ground by Infernape's sudden bear hug...

"Xiaozhi, are you okay..."

Following closely, Aing and Piper were worried about Ash's safety, thinking that they were being attacked by Infernape. When they got closer, they found that Ash, Pikachu and Infernape were hugging each other in a friendly manner.

At this moment, the girl who came with Xiaozhi from the other direction of the shore came to Xiaozhi and the others and said.

"Are you all right? My Infernape didn't cause any serious trouble, did he?"

Hearing the voice from behind, Xiaoqing and Piper turned their heads to look at each other, and saw that the person coming was a girl with red pigtails. The girl apologized while looking at Xiaoqing and the others on both sides, and then looked at Xiaozhi on the ground, and suddenly screamed.

"I'm sorry to bother you all, Infernape... Ah! It's... it's you!"

Xiaozhi also stood up after releasing the Infernape that was hugging him, and he was equally excited when he looked at the girl.

Xiaozhi and the girl also called out each other's names.

“…Xiaozhi!”

"Aimee, long time no see!"

Xiaoqing and Piper, who were standing nearby, didn't understand what was going on. They just watched the two of them reminiscing about the past, and then Xiaozhi introduced himself to both parties.

"Aimee, this is Xiaoqing and Paipa, my companions whom I met when I was traveling in the Padiya region!"

"Xiaoqing, Piper, this is Aimi, an acquaintance of mine in my hometown of Kanto. Her father, Shandou, is the trainer of my Pokémon, Infernape..."

After that, both parties shook hands and greeted each other... After looking around and not seeing anyone else, Xiaozhi asked Ai Mei.

"Aimee, why are you and Infernape in Padia, Mr. Fandou?"

Aimee replied.

"Are you talking about my father? He's not here. It's just me and Infernape who came to the Padia region... But it's great that I met you, Satoshi, when Infernape was in a slump."

Ai Mei's words left Xiaozhi a little confused. Looking at the changeable expression of Infernape next to him, he hurriedly asked.

"Aimee, tell me... what happened?"