Chapter 12

"Well if it isn't Honey and I see you have someone new traveling with you. Oh I see your companion has one of the failed experiments. Just like the gym leader here has three such failures since those pokemon did not look like what they regularly should be like. This came in the form of their coloring being off due to the typing it was given. Unlike your Togepi Honey that is exactly the same as its counterparts in the wild that only has two typings. Enough about that that though real reason I came to warn you is that you will fail at the next gym battle if you don's take it seriously now goodbye." Hazel flips into the air landing behind the wall. I quickly run to see where he was only to see him waving his hand while riding off in the distance on the street on his motorcycle.

Rain," Well I always thought Trapinch was special, Guess I was right." He shrugs his shoulders then proceeds to walk off to the pokemon center. I follow him worried if Hazel will be showing up every time I go to a new city. Then I worry about what pokemon the gym leader has and not knowing if he will the pokemon that have a typing they should not have. Even though I think this hope flares inside when Echo and Mercy look at me with confidence in their eyes. Just knowing that they believe in me is enough to have those doubts fade into the background.

Rain shows me to the room he got from Nurse Joy for me and the one he has across the hallway. Once I reach my room I let the rest of the pokemon out of their pokeballs. Minuet comes out with a twirl and then starts to dance across the room. Balwin looks ready to beat up someone when he comes out. Leilani rans to me with screeches of mama on repeat. Chuckling I pick up Leilani and leave the room to find where Henry could be.

The rest of my pokemon follow after with Echo making sure that Balwin and Minuet do not wander off. Rain comes out of his room following me when I wonder around the town. I see pokemon with people wandering around preparing for something. I go up to a person to ask what the town is preparing for.

"Oh this third annual water pokemon celebration that gym leader Magi has every January. It is a celebration that celebrates the end of the water type pokemon war after Magi stopped it before he became gym leader two years ago. People here usually dress in water type poekmon clothes that help symbolize the two warring factions in the turf war the Magicarp gang and Arrokuda gang or in water type pokemon clothing. You are just in luck that the celebrations are tonight and that gym leader Magi participates in the town square play that commemorates the end of the gang war by Magi." The older woman walks off and I finally notice that people here are dressed as Magicarp and Arrokuda clothing or wearing something with water type pokemon themes.

Then the woman says," For all people visiting their are costumes for free at the local restruant. Do not forget that everything is free during this festival. The reason being that the gym leader pays for everything out his own money. Then anything left over is donated to the local orphanage," The woman puts up a Magikarp lantern over her stall.

I go to the restaurant with Rain to grab our and our pokemon's costumes for the festival. I wear a Magikarp dress and Rain dresses up as a white Garados. All of our pokemon are dressed up as Magicarp. Then we walk around town for the festival. It was amazing seeing people wearing various outfits that fit the theme of water pokemon. I can even see pokemon dressed along side their partners. It was beautiful with the lanterns twinkling along with lights from outfits and pokemon.