Pokémon: Gengar (Ghost/Poison)

  Level: 50

  Potential: Purple

  Ability: Cursed Body

  Item: Toxic Orb

  Gender: Male

  Moves: fuse Ray, Lick, Hypnosis, Mean Look, Imprison, Payback, Curse, Hex, Night Shade

  TMs: Screech, Spite, Venoshock, Sludge Bomb, Sleep Talk, Protect, Fire Punch, Shadow Ball, Thunderbolt

  Egg Moves: Skill S, Dark Pulse, Disable, Perish Song, Peist, Will-O-Wisp

  Note: Ghost-type moves get a 30% power boost.

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  After ing the Odd keystone, Gengar's stats underwent signifit ges. Its level jumped from 38 to 50, and its Ghost-type moves received a notable boost.

  Looking at the ical, chubby Pokémon in front of him, Julian asked, "Have you finished abs the Odd keystone?"

  Gengar shook its head. Reag into its stomach with one arm, it pulled out the keystone, which had noticeably shrunk in size.

  Gengar seemed relut to let it go, thinking Julian wao take it back. Its sulky expression was almost tearful—after all, now that it realized how valuable the keystone was. The ges in its strength and form were undoubtedly due to it.

  "I'm not taking it. It's yours."

  Julian said angrily, helpless at Gengar's overrea.

  Gengar’s pyful nature had been evident si was a Gastly and Haunter, but its evolution into Gengar seemed to have amplified its mischievous streak.

  Delighted, Gengar quickly stuffed the Odd keystone bato its stomach.

  Its belly, which served as its own personal ste space, could hold many items—essentially funing like a backpack. However, the more items stored, the slengar could move.

  The white Gengar’s appearance was undeniably striking, perfectly matg Julian's aesthetic preferences.

  He patted Gengar’s round belly, its soft texture reminding him onite’s plump stomach.

  Recalling Akazam into its Poké Ball, Juliauro Gengar, ready to do the same. However, Gengar merged into Julian’s shadow, disappearing from sight.

  Gengar could hide in shadows, a signature trait of its species. Normally, this would cause the surrounding temperature to drop due to the Ghost-type’s presence.

  However, Julian’s Gengar had an exceptional ability: absolute invisibility. It her absorbed heat nor left traces, making it uable.

  Julian’s eyes lit up as he gazed at his shadow.

  A Gengar hiding there was the perfect tool for ambush.

  While other trainers’ Gengar could also hide in shadows, they cked this unique invisibility and would iably give themselves away by l the surrounding temperature.

  “Metagross, Let’s go”

  Julian rode oagross, heading to find Luis and the Survey team. He figured they wouldn’t have gone far yet.

  Celebi was still asleep in his backpack. Using his Probing Eyes, Julian had checked its dition—it had overexerted its psychiergy saving Dragonite, and now needed rest to recover.

  When it would wake up was uain, as it depended on how quickly its psychiergy replenished.

  By mid-afternoon the day, Julian finally caught up with Luis and the Survey team.

  These people moved faster than he’d expected.

  “Brother Walker!”

  Luis called out as Julian aagross nded in front of their group. “Where did you and Celebi go? Was the battle sounds we heard yesterday you fighting some Pokémon?”

  The battle with Spiritomb had taken p the tral region of the White Mountain Rahe fight had been so intehat even Luis and the others, who were in the middle se, had heard the noise.

  They’d evehe sky above that area turn pitch bck. Su eerie se iably made them ect the dots between the chaos and Julian with Celebi.

  “Yeah.”

  Julian nodded lightly, no further expnation.

  However, Luis was clearly not satisfied. His curiosity burned, especially sihe i involved Celebi, a mythical Pokémon.

  “Don’t ask. Even if you do, I won’t tell you.”

  Julian said, gng at him.

  His words effectively killed both Shen’s and Dalton’s curiosity too.

  “Student Julian, where is Celebi now?”

  Professor Allen asked, notig that Celebi wasn’t with Julian.

  “I helped it with something, and now it’s gone back,” Julian replied casually.

  There was no way he’d tell them Celebi was sound asleep in his backpack.

  “Boss Walker, why didn’t you catch it?”

  Dalton asked, a hint ret in his tone. Mythical Pokémon were incredibly rare and hard to e by. Celebi seemed to have a good retionship with Julian, making his ces of capturing it the highest.

  “What would I even do with it? It never shuts up,” Julian said rather disgusted.

  If he actually captured Celebi, it might annoy him to the point of shaving years off his life.

  “Alright, let’s go.”

  Julian said, cutting off their curiosity with a wave of his hand.

  Under his lead, the group spent more than half a month traversing the White Mountain Range. Along the way, they entered several wild Pokémon, but they were all dealt with swiftly.

  After parting ways with the Survey team, Julian, Luis, Shen, and Daltouro the uy without dey.

  Back at Vil No. 1, Julian was lying zily on a reer in the backyard. Ever sihe Hundred Schools League had begun, he’d been busy nonstop. This brief rest at home was his only real downtime in a long while.

  o Julian’s reer were some snacks, while beside him was another reer occupied by Gengar. Sp a pair of sungsses, it was soaking up the afternoon sun with a bottle of chilled soda by its side.

  Despite being a junior oeam, Gengar didn’t show even a hint of humility. This carefree attitude was something eveagross had never dared to dispy.

  Speaking of Metagross, it was fast asleep in one er of the yard. Dragonite aal were lying beside it, with Celebi onite's stomach.

  Nearly 20 days had passed, yet Celebi showed no signs of waking up.

  Julian had pced it onite’s belly, letting it bask in the sun. Being a Grass-type Pokémon, a little sunshine was bound to do it some good.

  Meanwhile, the addition to the team, Gabite, was busy seeking Lucario’s advi fighting teiques. As the team’s rookie, Gabite’s fighting spirit was off the charts.

  Over the past few weeks, it had challenged every Pokémon on Julian’s team, only to lose ead every match. Its rank oeam’s power scale was firmly at the bottom.

  This dealt a heavy blow to Gabite’s pride, so it trained diligently every day to close the gap.

  Dragonite had mentiohat eating more Pokéblocks could help boost strength, and Gabite had taken this advice to heart. It now ate far beyond its usual limit—one and a half boxes daily instead of just one.

  Steelix watched the hard-w Gabite with an amused grin. Meanwhile, Growlithe used his body as a slide.

  Its uneven, rocky surface seemed like a terrible choice for a slide, but Growlithe didn’t seem to mind. It enthusiastically slid down again and again, uned about the potential toll on its backside.

  Aggron, with its t frame resembling a small mountain, cast a long shadow as the sun shifted in the sky.

  Gengar grinned mischievously, vanishing into the kit. It was on a mission to sneak a taste of the meal Slowking reparing.

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