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In the end, Lee was right. The issue with the ghost type leader took an hour or so to solve, though the eggplant battled both leaders back to back and left. Bea said the entire issue revolved around symmetry, honestly I don't get it. But, I did learn the two gym leaders' names. The fighting type leader was named Dwayne and the ghost type leader Kid, both were guys.

Now I was waiting to challenge Kid first, mostly because I wanted to see how this guy manages to have issues with symmetry. Though I was kinda worried about my type matchups, my strategy was to poison them with the move poison powder that I taught Cherubi and dynamax Glaceon in the end. I'd work out the rest during battle.

"Yeah I know, you guys." I snapped from thought and looked down to see my pokemon watching me. We were practicing in a clearing near the stadium and I allowed my thoughts to wander.

The team was doing really good if I was honest and not trying to be cocky but, I don't think either gym leader stands a chance. 'Tund Bolt ' I looked over to see Boltund sparring with Vulpix, it was really uncharacteristic of Vulpix to willingly spar with another pokemon. 'Vulpix Vul!' I watched the spar continue, waiting to step in if needed and end the battle.

Vulpix was actually doing much better than Boltund, for a moment I thought I heard Vulpix say Ninetails once. Suddenly, I saw Vulpix glow and shine like Glaceon and Boltund did when they evolved. 'Ninetails!' The shimmering subsided and the mahogany fur of Vulpix was no longer, now it was a creamy ivory color.

'Nine?' The former Vulpix questioned and sniffed Boltund, who was laying on his side. Then he poked his nose in the black stripe on Boltund's side and Boltund jolted up in a flash, growling with narrowed eyes. I laughed and walked over to the pair of canine like pokemon, ruffling the fur on both of their heads. "Wow, look at you Ninetails. Now you look much stronger, like you wanted after you saw Kabu's Ninetails." I smiled at the fox pokemon, bending my knees so I was eye level with him. 'Tails!' He barked and melted into my hand when I started petting him, Boltund, forever being a puppy in energy, tackled Ninetails and brought me down with them.

Glaceon shot a flurry of snow at the pair, catching their attention and allowing me to escape the pile of fur. 'Glaceon Glac!' The ice blue pokemon scolded with an unquestioned authority, causing the pair to cower in fear. They were scared of Glaceon when she was angry even though they were twice her height, Milo says she learned it from me and I agreed.

Cherubi waddled up to me and sang out, she had been practicing her singing to Noibat. I had learned that Cherubi's singing couldn't keep Noibat asleep for very long, a minute or two at the most. And bonus! It kept Noibat occupied and kept him from interrupting the other's training with his energy. The moment Cherubi started singing, I felt really drowsy and exhausted, that was a good thing. My fatigue left when she stopped, noticing my instantaneous drowsiness. "Amazing job, Cherubi! Last time, it took a minute to get me tired, you can take a break if you want." I praised, picking up the little berry like pokemon and placing her on my shoulder.

'NOIBATTT!!' The now familiar screech sounded and as usual, the lavender colored bat flew into my arms. "What is it, Noibat? Did Glaceon start scolding you again?" I asked and stroked my hand across his spiky, purple fur, which the question earned a quiet 'bat' and a nod. "You know you can't be so hyper all the time, sooner or later you might get hurt because of it. Glaceon is just trying to get you to understand that." I sighed and looked to Glaceon, who nodded at my answer. Noibat nodded and flew off to play with Boltund and Ninetails.

"Hey you guys, ten more minutes and then we're going back to the stadium." I called to the wrestling boys, who all nodded and went back to rough housing.

Ten minutes went by pretty fast, I spent it talking with Glaceon and Cherubi. I decided the training was a success, besides the accomplishments of Ninetails and Cherubi, Glaceon got more powerful with her ice type moves, Boltund learned a stronger form of Bite which is Crunch, and Noibat got much faster. They all were as confident as I was about winning and were itching to try out their new attacks. So I called them all back to their pokeballs, minus Glaceon, and headed back to the gym.

The gym was split between the two gym types, though to keep from making the building too big they just kept one lobby and had two doors to enter the different gyms. Also, to keep from having too many trainers wait they built two battlefields. I remembered what I was told about how the gyms in Stow-on-Side and Circhester worked, you only need to pass the gym challenge once. Though, to get the badge you needed to defeat both gym leaders and I was surprised how many trainers didn't know that.

"Hey, (y/n)." I smiled when I heard my name, the owner of the voice was Raihan. "Who's gone so far, Raihan?" I stopped and looked around, "Where is everyone anyways?" The absence of two of my friends was normal but, I only saw Raihan and Gordie.

"Piers wanted to talk to Milo about something and Nessa and Bea are challenging the gyms. All of them just left a little while ago." Gordie answered, I mentally giggled when I saw him playing with his Shuckle. The Shuckle was balancing a few pebbles on its back and held a proud look on it's face.

"Oh well thanks for telling me that. Have either of you challenged yet?" I sat down and started brushing my fingers through Glaceon's fur, the eeveelution had moved from my shoulders to my lap once I sat down. The question was answered with a nod from Raihan and a shake of the head from Gordie.

"(y/n), Piers and your boyfriend are back." Raihan suddenly spoke up, a huge smirk plastered on his face. Since when has Raihan been my dad!? "I didn't know I had a boyfriend, Raihan." I narrowed my (e/c) eyes at the blue eyed dragon tamer, an irk mark on my forehead. Raihan sweatdropped and lifted his hands slightly, "Sorry I meant Milo, please don't kill me." He corrected himself and let out a sigh of relief when I just rolled my eyes.

"What's this about (y/n) having a boyfriend?" I looked back to see Piers approaching us, Milo not far behind.

"Dragon Onesie over there, decided to call Milo my significant other." I grumbled and Glaceon pawed my hand when I stopped stroking her fur. "It's Dragon Tamer, not Dragon Onesie!" I huffed at the said boy and retorted, "I'll start calling you Dragon Tamer when you're the champion of Galar, until them it's Dragon Onesie!"

"All right, I just asked a simple question not an argument." Piers put the arguing to a stop and sat on the bench next to us, Milo taking a seat beside me. "How was your practicing?" The boy next to me asked.

"Really good actually, they all worked hard." I smiled, Glaceon chirped happily at that and nuzzled into my arm. "Yeah you did really well too, Glaceon." I giggled at the ice type and looked back to the entrance doors. Bea came out of the doors that led to the ghost type gym, her face was full of determination. "Hey, Bea, did you win?"

"Apparently ghost type pokemon are immune to fighting types, so I lost. But I'm gonna train hard and challenge the gym again tomorrow." She joined the group and I stood up. "You challenging next?"

"Yep, I'm confident I'll win. Wish me luck." I headed to the doors Bea came out of and entered it, after saying I was challenging.

The challenge was getting through a giant pinball machine thing, which you navigated by spinning in a cup. It reminded me of a carnival game in steroids.

Time Skip

After getting stuck quite a few times, I made it through the challenge. I didn't like the challenge one bit, I felt like puking on more than one occasion and I couldn't see straight. But the worst is over, now I was battling the guy with symmetry issues.

I exited the entrance tunnel and was met by not a guy, but a girl. She was just a but taller than me and had long black hair with a barely noticeable hue of purple. Only one eye was visible through her hair and it was a sickly shade purple, I could tell by her facial expressions that she wasn't a very confident person. Now that I think about it, I might have mistook this person for a girl.

"Hello trainer, I'm Lucille and you'll be battling me " the person had a higher pitched voice but, it was overtook with nervousness. Yep definitely a girl, I gave the girl a smile, "I was told that the ghost type leader was a guy."

"Oh, Kid? He had a symmetry meltdown, the dude is so obsessed with everything being symmetrical. But, he can't battle in the state so I'm stepping in." Lucille explained like it was normal, I sweatdropped, Bea wasn't kidding when she said the dude had issues. "Anyway lets battle, shall we?" I nodded, her voice was extremely stressed as if she was trying her best not to stutter.

First battle, here we go!

New chapter!! So the names of Lucille and Dwayne are credited to SweetieTreaties as always, she drew awesome designs for both of them. Man I had to do some research for this chapter, I'm a sword player and had no idea how to write the ghost type gym parts. Anyways that's all
L signing off

Quote of the chapter -
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
        - Andr Gide