Chapter 24: CHAPTER-24
Deep inside a forest:
A man could be seen sitting against a huge tree with closed eyes.
A ghostly lamp was by his surveying the surroundings for any danger.
This was obviously Noah and lampent who escaped from the underground base a day ago.
Noah's whole body had been healed but he still was very exhausted.
Noah's eyes fluttered open as some dried blood was stuck on his face and naturally his eyelashes.
'This hurts.' He forcefully removed the dry blood from his eyelashes and stood up.
'They are not looking for me.' Noah started walking towards a random direction and lampent followed.
Right now he only had the purple robe and his bag which he retrieved.
His pokeballs were safe and the silver wing which ch ho-oh gave him was still there.
'I don't know what I am supposed to do with it.'
Noah was considering selling the silver wing.
He already had an earring made from it.
Then he thought back to the previous day.
'That woman was crazy.' Noah did not remember much about what happened,
He lost his consciousness and when he woke up he was in the wilderness.
He did not want to stay here any longer.
"Lampent take me to the shore." Noah ordered.
Yes he was now in an island which lampent scouted out.
'Choosing a empty island as your base is something a evil organisation would do.'
He followed behind lampent who was leading him towards the shore.
'I also need to check out these places too.'
He took out 3 different maps from his bag.
'This one is in johto and the location is mt.silver.' The memory of fighting against a certain gen 1 protagonist appeared in his mind.
'I don't know where the other maps are from.'
He stored them back into his bag and sped up his pace.
He was contemplating on whether to report this to the organisation or not.
However at this moment a dark purple scorpion stinger hooked onto Noah's bag.
Noah being quick to react, turned around and held onto to the stinger and yelled: "Lampent confuse ray!"
Lampent did not waste time as a small light orb shot out towards the Pokemon and revolved around its head until it was confused and fell to the ground.
Noah then glanced at the pokemon one more.
It was a dark purple bat with pincers as it's hands and a huge scorpion tail.
A gliscor.
It was currently confused and struggled to see straight.
'Should I catch it?' Noah hesitated.
He already had nine Pokemon including the egg and he did not feel confident about raising ten of them.
'But gliscor is one of my favourites.' Noah was having a hard time to choose.
But he knew he can't just go for his favourites everytime.
'Whatever if I feel like it's too much I can give him to another trainer.' He took out a pokeball and threw it at the gliscor.
'First try please.' Unfortunately for Noah the pokeball strongly shook and the gliscor escaped.
Noah did not allow the gliscor to snap out of confusion as he threw another pokeball.
Gliscor escaped again.
Third time.
Escaped.
Fourth time.
Escaped.
Fifth time.
Escaped.
Finally at the sixth try the pokeball stopped shaking and gliscor was successfully caught.
'Hell yeah.' Noah released gliscor from its pokeball and said: "Welcome to the team."
Gliscor nodded but with a bit of confusion.
His head was still spinning.
"Now follow me you two!" Now Noah took the lead as gliscor and lampent followed.
Gliscor almost went the opposite way but lampent dragged him along.
30 minutes later.
Noah reached the empty shore as lampent and a bruised gliscor appeared behind him.
Gliscor crashed into a lot of trees on the way.
But on the bright side he was snapped out of confusion.
Noah took a deep breath and enjoyed the feeling of the wind on his face.
It was really windy on the shore right now.
"Back to the pokeballs you go." Noah recalled both his Pokemon and approached the shoreline.
He took out a pokeball marked with a M and released the Pokemon inside.
'I should change it into G.' Noah thought as he looked at the gargantuan gyarados infront of him.
His magikarp evolved into a gyarados during the fight against zapdos.
Noah was happy for it but he was still having a hard trying to understand how his gyarados is so big.
'Its not a mutation or a medical condition right?'
The gyarados lowered its head and Noah got on top of it.
Gyarados rose it's head and Noah held on tight.
"Gyarados go in any direction you like." Noah himself didn't know where they were and the island wasn't marked in the map.
So this was the only thing he could do.
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2 days later.
Noah layed ontop of gyarados' head as he used his hand to shield his face from the sun.
Right now all of his Pokemon were out of their pokeballs and all of them were on top of gyarados.
Even lapras.
His two bats seems to have hit it off as they were flying around gyarados' head.
Larvesta was sleeping ontop of flaaffy's head while turtwig was nagging both of them.
Combusken was sitting down while lampent floated infront of him.
Combusken had a serious expression as he carefully observed the three moving upside down cups infront of him.
Finally they stopped and he chose left.
His guess was wrong.
Lapras on the other was sleeping near them.
Currently Noah was losing his mind,
Two days felt like an eternity for him.
'I hope we reach a port town today.' He prayed.
'Now that I think about it, are even in Johto?'
This means they were stuck at sea.
That would be really bad.
'Nah, I should be more positive.' Noah closed his eyes and went to sleep so he can stop overthinking it.
Ofcourse he wasn't able to sleep.
He pretended to.
'Okay enough fooling around I should move onto more important matters, such as the secret cult.' Noah's mind sharpened.
'Even though I didn't see the potrait I am pretty sure it's a Pokemon and that unown is a bit strange too.' Noah wanted to take some pictures but his pokegear was destroyed during the encounter against zapdos.
'These maps maybe will lead me towards their other bases and I will also contact Lance about this.' Noah wanted to make sure that the cult is completely destroyed.
'I couldn't get much information about that woman but I am sure I can find some clue left behind by Jake and Emily.'
'And considering they have been acting as my friends for a long time maybe I was their target.'
'What if my reincarnation was caused by this cult?' Noah wanted to deny it but the all the evidence he obtained says otherwise.
'I also need to get stronger.' Noah learnt a lot during these last few days.
'But I should take it easy, stress doesn't bring results.'
At this moment he could hear the cheers from his Pokemon and he stood up to check it out.
And there he saw a harbour with a lot of ships docked near it.
'Olivine again?' Noah sighed and ordered gyarados to speed up.
'I need to rush towards blackthorn tomorrow.'
Noah decided in his mind.
But right now he needed a comfortable bed to sleep, gyarados' scales were really sharp.