9 Sale, Purchase, Rodeo and Moon

[ Quest Complete ]

[ Defeat Brock and earn your first Gym badge ]

[ Rewards: 6 free stat points, Trainer rank upgrade and 1 Treasure Map.]

[ Quest Unlocked ]

[ Defeat one of the Cerulean City Gym Leaders and earn your second Gym badge ]

[ Rewards: 6 free stat points and 1 Treasure map. ]

Drake opened the treasure map first and it faded into particles before highlighting a location in Mount Moon, deciding to check it out when he was in there. He then left to call home.

Luckily for Drake this call home didn't last as long as usual, after 30 minutes his family hung up. Drake then left the Pokémon center to deal with the more pressing matters at hand, while he was strolling the streets he was looking for somewhere to sell the honey and the Beedrill and he did. He found several restaurants and a couple shops that offered different amounts but the average price was $5,000 a gallon. Drake would have preferred to sell them all to one place and be done with it but they all wanted different amounts and he couldn't just mystically take out several gallons of honey from his small backpack.

But luckily for him, he managed to offload 150 gallons of honey which yielded him an amount of $765,000, which sounded like a lot but considering that his Pokémon's appetite would keep growing and the prices for TM'S and HM'S as well as other necessary items, it was just a drop in the proverbial bucket. He also managed to find the Pokémon Guld outpost for Pewter City, they were a platform where trainers could trade or sell Pokémon as well as rare items. The only thing related to Pokémon that couldn't be found here were Pokémon eggs. The consumption or selling of Pokémon eggs was a crime punishable by up to 20 years imprisonment. It was still found on the black market but they were often raised by the Police ( who were actually competent in this world) and the Pokémon League.

He posted a sale notice on the platform which displayed it's known moves , body measurements and it's status as a Queen Beedrill. All of which drastically increased the value of the Beedrill, Drake didn't set an asking price but instead set a timer where whoever offered the most during that time would win the Beedrill. But he also set a secret minimum amount so that if someone tried to use underhanded methods to secure the Beedrill at an extremely cheap cost, they'd fail.

He set the minimum amount at $ 2,000,000 considering that the cheapest Pokémon available was valued at $40,000. Pokémon prices varied depending on the amount of evolutions and the utility of the Pokémon, a Pokémon strictly used for fighting wouldn't see any variation in price unless it knew a strong move, but a Pokémon that could fight and could do some form of manual labour after retirement was higher valued. But a Pokémon that could fight and had a byproduct that could be sold had high and variable prices as well.

Drake's Beedrill was a rare queen with a strong move so someone could use it too start their own honey trade. It was also that valuable because queens were hard to catch because they were usually surrounded by the workers who would sa rifice themselves so that the queen could escape and live on. Pokémon weren't as easy to capture as one would be led to believe, there weren't that many truly strong trainers, so there was always a shortage of worker and tradework Pokémon. Hence the high price.

The timer was due to finish today at noon so Drake decided to wait at the Guild branch until the timer ran out. When it did Drake recieved a notification from the clerk that he received an offer, but it seemed that Drake underestimated the value of this Beedrill because he got an offer of $ 3.5m which he immediately accepted. Apparently a regional business was in dire need of a queen Beedrill to increase their honey output. One of the managers quickly rushed to Pewter City when he saw where the Beedrill was being sold from. After handing of the Pokéball to the manger after seeing his account balance increase in his status Drake then scrolled through the list in search of a Pokémon to use for on land transportation.

He then decided on a Tauros who are usually sold cheap because of the difficulty in taming them. He scrolled through the list and found a shiny Tauros being sold for $ 750,000 which is extremely cheap for a shiny Pokémon but also says that it is extremely bad tempered. With his plo*cough* usual luck working overtime the seller was a resident of Pewter City after notifying the seller of his interest in buying the Tauros the man said he'd be at the center in 10 minutes, apparently he was in the Pokémon Center.

Ten minutes later Drake saw a middle-aged man limping his way towards him who introduced himself as the owner of the Tauros. Apparently the man was kicked by the Tauros when he was trying to remove a nail from it's hoof. In need of money for the operation to fix the limp he decided to sell the Tauros cheap. After warning Drake not to sneak up on it from behind, the man made his exit. Drake already had a plan to win over Terry the Tauros, a bit on the the nose but he didn't name him.

Making his way out of Pewter City, Drake walked 15 miles from the city before stopping to befin the preparations for his plan. He made some high quality Pokémon food and Pokéblocks for the Tauros before he then let it out of it's Pokéball, Terry looked aroind for a bit before spotting Drake and slightly putting himself on guard. Then it smelled the food and Pokéblocks, starving it slowly walked toward the food but paused when he saw Drake's outstretched hand before it realized that if it wanted to eat that delicious food it would have to let the human pet it. After a brief moment of deliberation it then proceeded towards Drake and the food and allowed the human to pet it while it ate. Relishing in the flavor of it's meal it didn't notice Drake strapping on a saddle to it's back until it was finished eating and felt the weight of the human on it's back. Annoyed it started rampaging trying to buck Drake of it's back, but the saddle and Drake's above average strength and endurance made it an impossible feat. After rampaging for 5 minutes it looked around for a tree but couldn't spot any, Drake stopped here for this moment, his plan was perfect. taking out a stick with a vine tied to it on one end and a bunch of Oran berries on the other he dangled it in front of Terry who smelled it and calmed down slightly. After a few minutes of patting it's side to calm it down he let it eat the berries after it was calm enough.

Dismounting from Terry's back, Drake then approached Terry's head, Terry then rubbed his head on Drake for a bit to show it's acceptance . Drake then released Dratini and Prometheus and proceeded to introduce them to Terry their new teammate, when Dratini heard the name Terry it looked to Drake with tears forming in its eyes. Drake saw its look and said " Relax from now on your name will be Zeus, wear it with pride." Hearing his new name he raised his head proudly. Pausing once again to prepare food for his Pokémon interacted with each other, after a brief meal Drake and his Pokémon made their way to Mount Moon.

Since there was no forest to accidentally burn down, Drake left all of his Pokémon minus Wrath outside to keep him company. Zeus coiled himself up on Terry's neck and Prometheus walked alongside them, it took three hours to reach Mount Moon thanks to Terry. Drake looked at the tall mountain and smiled deviously before scrolling through his system store in search of a hoodie, he soon found a black Skiddo leather jacket with a hood to further his leather obsession.

While Drake was in Pewter City he heard rumors that someone found a fossil in Mount Moon which lead to a large scale excavation in a part of the mountain. Drake knew that Team Rocket would either hire fossil hunters or just rob the archeologists who found any fossils, Drakes plan was to rob Team Rocket. The hood was for identity concealment, he wasn't ready for idiots like Jesse and James to be following him trying to steal his Pokémon. Before planning his heist Drake decided to check Terry's stats.

[ Pokémon Stats ]

Name: Terry

Gender: ♂️

Species: Tauros (Shiny)

Ability:Anger Point

Hidden Ability: Sheer Force

Level: 10

Moves: Tackle lvl MAX, Tail Whip lvl MAX, Rage lvl Max, Horn Attack lvl 6.

Stat Level: D

Even though Terry has just reached adulthood so his potential hasn't dried up yet, his stat level will still grow slower than Drake's other Pokémon due to him having no further evolutions. Three out of Terry's four moves were Maxed out and even though it looked impressive it wasn't, they were capped at lvl 5, it was however impressive that he leveled them up while living in captivity. More proof that Shiny Pokémon aren't treated well unless they're strong. Even though Terry wasn't going to be one of his main Pokémon he wasn't going to have any weak Pokémon on his arsenal.

Drake then checked his own status for the first time since he checked it in pallet town.

[ Trainer Stats ]

Name: Drake Gold

Age: 16

Strength: 18*

Agility: 20*

Endurance: 30*

Intellect:42*

Stat Points: 8*

Affinity: Old God's Chosen ( Main Affinity: Dragon)

(Minor Affinity: All)

Trainer Rank: Intermediate

Money: $3.6m

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After inspecting the changes Drake then put 3 points into Agility and 5 points into Endurance. Feeling the warm current flow through him again, Drake waited until it stopped before he stepping into the cave.