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Sadly, when I leave Ambrette Town, I'm still on the Muraille Coast, so I can't catch any new Pokemon. I was contemplating on doing so since this was a huge, whole other area, but I didn't. I found a Mago Berry tree, whose berries apparently restores the HP of a Pokemon's in a pinch, but will cause confusion if they don't like the taste.
I ran into another neglected trainer named Fisherman Wharton and battled him. Due to my stupidity, I lost Gevalia to a critical Acid, which, honestly made my heart sink and cry. I was putting so much heart into Gevalia, and I lost her. The Tentacool I was fighting was Level 19, and I had no Pokemon at that high of a level. I crumbled a little. Not again...
I brought Triarch out and he clean-sweeped the Tentacool off. However, he had gotten poisoned from the Tentacool's Toxic Spikes. I had to heal him a couple of times to avoid losing him, too. I could do a lot of damage with just his Headbutts. I was able to finish off the rest of Wharton's Tentacools, and the battle was over.
I am going to find a Pokemon for a new Gevalia. I swear it. An even better Pokemon, no offense to the first. Lesson learned, whenever engaging with trainer battles, always bring Triarch out first, even if another Pokemon's out. That way there's more experience to go around.
I make it to Cyllage City and took a look around. As you've probably guessed, I haven't been to many of these places in a long time. Y'know the guy that's on his bicycle in front of that one slope of the street that you can't go up, but only go down? Well, I tried to talk to him, but faced away, pressed A, and collected an X-Speed. There was no Pokeball anywhere that I found. It was just...right there...in the middle of empty street...an X-Speed. Weird.
After trying to see if I could fish for new Pokemon, I go to the Pokemon Center to heal up my remaining buddies and head out to find Route 9. I saw that Route 10 was where you exited the city, so I looked around to see where the other one was. Climbing up the side of the cliffside where the Gym is, I go beyond it and was met with a little cave entrance that I barely remember was there. Apparently it was the Connecting Cave Zubat Roost, so I couldn't catch any new Pokemon. Where the heck is Route 9??
I grinded a little in the Zubat Roost, trying to get all of my Pokemon at a decently high level. I was contemplating getting everyone to at least Level 20, while I was there because honestly, I don't wanna take any chances, anymore. This is probably gonna take a while since Triarch was the only one near Level 20, and everyone else was around Level 15.
While I was down there, I just feel like I'm in a whole other section. While the other entrance I went through had a buttload of Zubats, this place had a variety of Wismurs, Axews, Meditites, and whatnot. After a while, I realized that if I wanted to get experience faster, I needed to go find a different place with higher level Pokemon. So I grinded to about Level 17-18 and tried to find Route 9.
I found myself back at the upper Muraille Coast for a little more training. It was raining outside, which didn't mean much for me, considering that when it rains, it doesn't harm anybody. I've always wondered why there's like a horde of Zangoose, then this random Seviper that's among the pack. I had thought they disliked each other, but meh. Defeated them on the way back down to Ambrette Town.
I went to the Pokemon Center and replenished my buddies' PP. I wasn't low on Potions, so I left straight afterward with a departing thanks to Nurse Joy (I do that, is it weird?). After a while, I realized that there was another passageway, a gate, actually, that led to another place that I completely forgot about. And, lo and behold, there was Route 9, the Spike Passage.
Lemme just say, I really hated that place. While it was a great place to train Night, since he could fly and tank in damage, I had lost Scorpio to a Sandile that I encountered there, because Rollout had prevented me from healing him. Although, I was able to catch said Sandile and named her Shade. I had four Pokemon left. I hope I can get a good one back up at the cave up ahead. I had to run back to the Pokemon Center to heal up, then I went back to the Spike Passage to train up more.
I finally make it to the Glittering Cave. First thing I run into...is a Machop. Okay, not the best, but also not bad either. I also realized that Flying-Type must be real darn strong against Fighting-Type, because I capture him at 1 HP left with a Wing Attack from Night. I was half-inclined to name him Chad, for certain reasons, since this was an actual male Machop, but then, for the half-irony of it, I named him Charlie. Oh, and I also ran outta Potions. Darnit, I should've stocked up more when I went back-
After a close call with an Onyx that I ran into because I can't navigate properly in a cave I haven't been in for nearly three years, I head out, got my buddies healed by that one Pokemon Ranger lady, then headed back to Ambrette Town. On the way there...hhh, I am such an idiot. I thought Psychic-Type was effective against Dark! See, I was kinda under the impression that Ghost, Psychic, and Dark were like Fire, Grass, and Water. They can cancel each other out, or so I thought. I knew Ghost was good against Psychic and that Dark was good against Ghost. But Dark also makes Psychic-Type moves worthless! I lost Spring that way and I made this really loud screaming noise...
...Anyways, I make it back to Ambrette Town and put Spring into the Morgue, next to Scorpio. I healed everyone up, saved, bought more Potions, and slept in the Pokemon Center.
Well, really, I'm sleeping here. I still have four Pokemon. Maybe having five or more is just unlucky for me.