Saffron City Dojo

Saffron City

The central business district of Kanto, home to the Psychic type Gym Leader, Sabrina. Countless trainers flock to the city for various reasons. One of these is to challenge the Fighting Dojo of Saffron City.

The Fighting Dojo is positioned to the west of Saffron City Gym. The Fighting Dojo and the Saffron Gym once competed to determine which one would be the Indigo league's sixth Pokemon Gym. Due to the type advantage that Saffron Gym's Psychic-type Pokémon had over the Fighting Dojo's Fighting-type Pokémon, Saffron Gym easily won and became the official gym.

Although no Badge can be won in the Dojo, the unofficial Gym remains open and continues to accept challenges. Unlike other Gyms, the Fighting Dojo has a simple design which has not changed much over the generations.

The Fighting Dojo has a maintained wooden floor and walls with a kirizuma style roof. It is quite spacious inside with a bunch of Battle fields for Pokemon Battles and training.

At this time, a young man wearing a dark red full-sleeved shirt with a dark blue and black vest over it, denim black pants with dark gray and white running shoes, a dark blue beret with a white and black semi Pokeball on the back, and a leather backpack on his back, stood outside the entrance of the Fighting Dojo.

Folker looked at the Dojo in awe of the architectural design. He then tried to enter the Dojo but he was stopped by a muscular figure with fearsome eyes and spiky hair, wearing a white karate uniform with a red belt.

"State your purpose young man" the Black belter said with a deep voice, attempting to intimidate the young man.

"I'm here to join the Fighting Dojo and to train with my Pokemon" Folker replied with determination.

The Black belter stared at Folker for a while, he noticed his determination and smiled.

"Welcome to the Dojo young man, you may register with the lady over there" The Black belter said and pointed at the left side.

Folker nodded and walked in the direction pointed by the Black belter. He arrived at the counter and registered his name. He now officially joined the Fighting Dojo of Saffron City.

After he registered, he went over to the training area and on the left side, he saw Trainers punching the air with a weird stance as their Pokemon imitated them. On the right side, battles can be seen over the field as Pokemon fiercely fought alongside the loud shouts of their trainers.

A bald figure of a middle aged man wearing a Karate uniform with a black belt suddenly approached Folker.

"Welcome to the Dojo, young man. The name's Randy, what about yours?" Randy said to Folker.

"I'm Folker, from Vermilion City. I came here to train with my Pokemon after Nurse Joy's recommendation" Folker said.

"Hoh, then battle with me. Let's see how you and your Pokemon perform together" Randy said and called out his Pokemon.

A tan, humanoid Pokémon came out of Randy's Pokeball. There are five blunt protrusions on top of its head, and it has structures resembling pads over its shoulders. It appears to be wearing a light purple tunic and kilt, as well as red boxing gloves and light purple boxing shoes. In-between the tunic and kilt is a small, black area.

"Hitmonchan!"

The Pokemon let out a cry and moved its legs with lateral footwork as it punched the air twice with its left fist then one uppercut with its right fist.

Folker looked at the figure and sensed its strength. He then reached for his pocket and grabbed a Pokeball from his pocket. He then called out Riolu from its Pokeball.

"Riolu!"

A small blue canine Pokemon with a black mask suddenly appeared in front of Hitmonchan and let out a sharp cry. It seemed to have sensed the strength of the figure in front of it and looked at it warily.

'I've never seen this kind of Pokemon before. It must be a Pokemon from other regions. Still, this one has a different feel to it' Randy thought to himself as he looked at the unfamiliar figure of Riolu.

"That's a rare Pokemon you got there" Randy said as he looked at Riolu.

"This is my friend, Riolu. It hatched from its egg not long ago but don't mistake it for a helpless baby. It attacked my Scyther at first sight and attacked every Pokemon it saw until it realized the common sense to not attack every Pokemon in sight" Folker said as he looked at the handful baby Riolu.

'A baby!?' Randy internally screamed. He was stunned after realizing that it was just a baby Pokemon. He was surprised as he didn't expect Riolu to be a baby, not to mention that it just hatched not long ago.

He wondered if it was normal for Riolu's species to have fearsome energy the moment they were born.

'As expected of Pokemon from other regions' Randy thought to himself. He swore to himself that someday, he'll travel to different regions and witness different kinds of Pokemon. There's still so much to learn in the world after all.

"Where did you get its egg? I've never seen any Pokemon like this one before. It must have been from other regions, right?" Randy said.

"Oh, its egg was left behind by my Dad. My parents were from Sinnoh and migrated here to Kanto so they had rare Pokemon, or at least considered rare in Kanto, when they came here" Folker said.

"I see. I'm curious about its abilities. The moment I saw it, I sensed something different from it. It's a peculiar feeling" Randy said curiously, trying to recall the mysterious feeling he felt when he saw Riolu.

"In that case, how about we start the battle?" Folker said to Randy with a confident smile. He looked at Riolu and said enthusiastically "Are you ready Riolu? Let's show him what we got!"

"Riolu!"

Riolu let out a sharp cry and imitated Hitmonchan's lateral footwork with ease.