After I shared my decision with my parents, we talked about my living arrangents. The academy offered dorms to its students at a pretty affordable cost. There was also the option of renting their own place if they had the money for it.
Luckily, there was still so ti to look over the options, so we decided to discuss everything during the weekend. Once the serious business was over I decided to go over everything in preparation for the future starting with my Pokemon.
A lot had happened especially after I caught my Feebas. That event transpired nearly 4 years ago, roughly about 3 3\\4 years ago actually. Still, who kept track of sothing like that, am I right?
Anyway, everyone had made considerable progress since then and Xatu had even finally decided he was ready for a na. I rember being really happy with his decision.
It actually happened a month before "Rayquaza's Descent", the sa year I caught the two Feebas. "Rayquaza's Descent", even after all the years I have been on Terra I still sotis wonder about the form they decided to use Rayquaza's na since they didn't use it during the naming of the days.
"Rayquaza's Descent" was what the last day of the year was called on Terra and the first day of the new year was called "Rayquaza's Ascent". They even nad the holiday they had at the ti "Rayquaza's Patrol". Compensation much, am I right?
Anyway, a month before the end of 2174 Xatu felt ready for a na and ca to so we could choose one together. We went over quite a few nas and he ultimately settled on Horus.
He was not the only one among my Pokemon that got a na but with him being my first Pokemon it was a bit different. Since Horus ca up, let's just start with him.
'Na: Horus
Species: Xatu
Gender: Male
Age: 7 years
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Type: Psychic, Flying
Potential: Blue (6.42%) -> Deep Blue (89.37%)
Genetic modifiers: None
Abilities: Keen Eye, Synchronize, Early Bird
Talents: Energy Sensitivity V.1
Affinities: Psychic, Flying, Ghost (Budding)
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Bond: Mikail (strong)
Quirk: Curious
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Paraters:
Stage: Silver Stage (high)
Vitality: A
Strength: A
Endurance: A
Agility: S
Energy Capacity: S
Energy Density: A
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Resistance:
Grass (Minor), Fighting (Major), Psychic (Minor)
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Weaknesses:
Electric (Minor), Ice (Minor), Rock (Minor), Ghost (Minor), Dark (Minor)
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Standardized:
Electric (in-progress)
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Condition: Healthy, Happy
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Masteries:
Psionic E. Manipulation (Advanced),
Flying/Air E. Manipulation (Beginner) -> (Proficient)
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Techniques:
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(Unofficial) Initial:
N/A
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Novice:
N/A
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Beginner:
N/A
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Proficient:
Reflect, Light Screen, Wish, Psycho Shift, Confuse Ray, Leer, Peck, Night Shade, Gust, Flash, Roost, Miracle Eye, Rest, Steel Wing
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Advanced:
Shadow Ball, Air Slash, Protect, Calm Mind, Cosmic Power, Psychic
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Mastered:
Stored Power, Teleport'
There was a lot to unpack and simultaneously not that much. His age had obviously gone up as had the age of everyone else.
Still, at 7 years old he belonged to the senior mbers of our little group age-wise since all of us were relatively young, even the oldest among us, which by the way was not .
Anyway, there was his potential which did improve mostly due to his breakthrough to the silver stage. The increase outside of that breakthrough was less than 23% over nearly 4 years. Yeah, thank w for the limit-breaking potential boost.
Unfortunately, Horus did not manage to unlock a gene during his breakthrough to the silver stage, but I was hoping he would manage to do so during the one to the gold stage.
There was also his affinity with the ghost type. It went from being a trace, so being barely there to budding.
Honestly, we didn't really focus on that. It grew through the training of his ghost-type moves and the occasional ghost-type supplent. That was probably also why it only reached the first official affinity grade. Still, it was enough for now.
Then ca sothing I was really happy about when it happened, the bond. The bond between us had upgraded to "strong" shortly after Horus broke through to the silver stage. The taphorical path that connected us widened with it bringing so boons with it.
One of the boons was an increase in my physical/ntal capabilities, but those were not so significant for . Now, don't get wrong if I had been a regular trainer the boost would have been great likely ending with doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling my capabilities.
At least that would be the case once my new limits were reached, but I was not a regular trainer. No, I was a Tier 2 Psychic and Tier 2 Aura User, so the boost I got was relatively small. However, every bit counted so I was not complaining.
Besides, there were two more boons the strong bond brought with it. First, was the lifespan increase, which was obviously not that important for right now. You know with being a strapping young lad.
The second one was pretty aweso. It gave a small resistance to Horus's typing, so I gained so slight resistance to psychic and flying/air moves. Nothing extraordinary but it was a start and as they say, sothing was still better than nothing.
Anyway, back to Horus. My boy had "recently" managed to raise all his paraters to A and began his limit-breaking afterward. The two S-values were the result of 12 months of hard training supported by a lot of supplents and I was hoping the others would soon follow.
Besides regular parater training, we also went through resistance training. About 3 years ago I finally began the resistance training of all of my Pokemon. At the ti I had finally unlocked the formulae for the supplents necessary to support such training.
Horus was going through the electric course, which showed up in the new Standardized section as in-progress. Once the regi was successful Xatu would have turned his relation to the electric type from a (minor) weakness into a neutral one.
So of my Pokemon had already succeeded to do so with one type. I had my "new" electric type help him with his resistance training but more about that and the other newcors later.
Now, back to Horus's progress. Unfortunately, despite getting better with the manipulation of the psionic energy his mastery had not risen to the mastered rank. This went a long way to show how difficult it was to reach that rank.
Still, he managed to improve his mastery over flying/air energy to the proficient rank, so that was good. He also had a pretty good improvent as far as his move pool was concerned.
Not only did he manage to learn Miracle Eye, which took nearly 8 months by the way, but he also raised it to the proficient rank. The sa was true for the 2 other new moves he learned after Miracle Eye, which were Rest and Steel Wing.
It took much less ti to learn those two, but he also had help with those two so that factored in as well. For Rest, he had Ursaring whom he had been able to talk to whenever he needed help, and for Steel Wing, none other than Mothra had helped him.
She had actually managed to learn that one on her own once more showing the greatness of her talent. Seriously his girl's talent was like a bug. See what I did there? *cough*
There was also Roost that he had started learning around the sa ti as Miracle Eye but finished way before it. He had Hera's help whenever necessary so that was no problem. Roost got raised to proficiency even before Miracle Eye was learned and we decided to stop at that point.
Aside from those three, he had improved Flash from beginner to proficient, Cosmic Power from proficient to advanced, and Stored Power from advanced to mastered.
Despite the progress he made with Psychic, increasing its might and range, its rank did not improve. The sa was true for Teleport, but at least that one was already mastered, so not reaching the transcended rank was understandable.
He managed to greatly increase the range of the Teleport while also reducing the duration of the breaks between each teleportation but the rank stayed the sa.
Nonetheless, he had gotten much stronger in this ti and I was really proud of him. He went from the small Natu he had been to a strong Xatu that many would be jealous of.
However, there was soone that had him completely beat in the jealousy departnt. I was obviously talking about Mothra. My girl was simply fabulous and her progress was just as impressive.
'Na: Mothra
Species: Butterfree
Gender: Female
Age: 6 years
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Type: Bug, Flying
Potential: Light Purple (64.59%) -> Deep Purple (29.64%)
Genetic variation: Royal
Abilities: Compound Eyes, Tinted Lens
Talents: Quick Start V2
Affinities: Bug, Flying, Psychic, Grass (Budding)
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Bond: Mikail (strong)
Quirks: Likes to eat, Curious
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Paraters:
Stage: Silver Stage (high)
Vitality: SS
Strength: S
Endurance: S
Agility: SS
Energy Capacity: SSS
Energy Density: SS
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Resistance:
Grass (Major), Fighting (Major), Ground (Minor), Bug (Minor)
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Weaknesses:
Fire (Minor), Ice (Minor), Flying (Minor), Rock (Major)
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Standardized:
Electric
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Condition: Healthy, Happy
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Masteries:
Bug E. Manipulation (Proficient) -> (Advanced),
Psychic/Psionic Energy Manipulation (Beginner) -> (Proficient),
Flying/Air E. Manipulation (Novice) -> (Proficient)
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Techniques:
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(Unofficial) Initial:
Hurricane
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Novice:
Rage Powder
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Beginner:
Energy Ball, Protect
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Proficient:
Bug Bite, Tackle, Gust, Sleep Powder, Stun Spore, Poison Powder, Whirlwind, Steel Wing
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Advanced:
Iron Head, Iron Defense, Harden, Psychic Fangs, Thunder Fang, Electroweb, Bug Buzz, Psybeam, Air Slash, Signal Beam, Quiver Dance, Psychic
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Mastered:
Confusion, String Shot, Tailwind'
She had obviously reached the silver stage just like Horus, so her potential increased through the limit-breaking bonus as well. She went from light purple to deep purple thanks to the 160% bonus, which was great.
What was less great was that in the nearly 4 years that went by I had only managed to increase her potential by roughly 5% through the use of supplents. Her potential was just so high that their effectiveness (potential-wise) was either minimal or non-existent.
Still, thankfully the limit-breaking bonus was not influenced by her strength or current potential, so that was really helpful.
Mothra just like Horus did not unlock any additional gene or upgrade her royal one during her breakthrough, but just like with Horus I was pretty confident that it would happen during her next breakthrough.
Enough accumulation and all that. What I was actually thinking about was the potential cost of the genes. I knew that unlocking genes used up potential, but I was unsure how much.
What I knew was that the cost increased with the Tier of the gene so the king gene was rightfully costlier than the royal gene. Still, I was looking forward to it and Mothra could afford it either way.
Funnily enough, Mothra had the next thing in common with Horus as well. She had increased her affinity to the grass type to budding, but unlike with Horus, this was actually her fourth affinity. Ahh, my not so little, little girl surpassed expectations left and right.
That happened more on its own as well, so it was a welco surprise when it happened. Next, there was our bond which naturally improved to "strong" as well. As if there was any doubt about that happening. No, that one had been written in stone.
Now, I had already ntioned her breakthrough to the silver stage and she had reached the (high) silver stage so ti ago. More than a year actually, and she was doing her limit-breaking training.
As can be seen, by her strength and endurance paraters it took her more effort and ti to increase those. The way it was currently looking and the increase in ti I knew happened the further along one went with limit training told we would be at it for a while.
I was guessing it would take her at least a few more years before she could break through to the gold stage with all her paraters at SSS. Thankfully we were young and had no problem with spending the extra ti the limit training was amounting to.
Besides, this way we theoretically stood out "less" since our progress "slowed" down. "Less", because we still were going to stand out the way things were looking right now.
I estimated that Mothra at least would be at the (high) gold stage, doing her limit-breaking, by the ti we began our official journey, so yeah. Still, I was not sure so I could be off as well.
Anyway, that was sothing for "future " to think about. Now, just like Horus Mothra did the resistance training as well. She even trained the sa one, electric, like him, but in contrast to Horus Mothra successfully completed it.
She managed to get rid of her weakness to the electric type. Reducing her high number of weaknesses from 5 to 4, which honestly was still rather high. Currently, she had started with her resistance training towards the ice type with the help of Lapras.
Next up were her energy masteries, and among all my Pokemon Mothra had the highest number of them. Her bug, psychic, and flying/air energy manipulation had all improved.
Among those three her bug one beca advanced, while the other two beca proficient. Considering the number of them this was pretty impressive.
Especially her flying energy mastery since that one improved by two grades compared to the other two that only increased by one grade. After that impressive bit, we were only left with her move pool.
Now, as one would expect from soone with her talent and potential, her move pool had seen a lot of progress. She learned 7 new moves one which ca naturally without her even trying to learn it.
That was Rage Powder, a move most Butterfree naturally comprehended while getting stronger as long as they did not neglect their powder moves. Still, it was a move that we were not really interested resin so it was her only move that was still at novice mastery.
Psychic and Quiver Dance, two of those 7 new moves, ca rather naturally to her as well and since they were very useful she trained them up to advanced mastery.
The other 4 moves did not co as natural with one of them being actually not even among the moves Butterfree learned. Those 4 moves were Energy Ball, Protect, Steel Wing, and Hurricane.
Energy Ball and Protect were learned and raised to the beginner mastery before she shifted her focus to other moves. Steel Wing was a move that the Butterfree species actually did not learn.
At least they did not learn it on their own and it was not easy to do so even for Mothra. She derived it from her Iron Defense and Iron Head moves, just like she had managed to derive Iron Head from Iron Defense. Still, not only did she learn it she also raised it to proficient mastery.
I was pretty sure the only reason she even succeeded with that was her really high potential with her overpowered talent. I was sure that the biggest factor was still her talent and without it, I did not believe it would have been possible for her to learn those moves.
The sa was true for Thunder Fang and Psychic Fang. So, I was thankful for her great talent. Anyway, back to her new moves. Hurricane was her latest project and she was still trying to get it down. She was using Gust, Whirlwind, and Air Slash as the basis of her endeavor.
Now, the number of her old moves that improved were too many. Gust, Whirlwind, Sleep Powder, Stun Spore, and Poison Powder were raised to proficient.
I was actually considering if I should have her combine her powder moves as well, but it was better if she finished with Hurricane first. Then there were Bug Buzz, Psybeam, Air Slash, and Signal Beam.
She improved her mastery of those to advanced and to add a cherry on top of all of that she even mastered Tailwind. We focused on Tailwind since it helped increase her mobility and speed, which increased her survivability.
Honestly, even I was thinking that her progress with her moves was terrifying, but it is what it is. This simply proved what a darling my Mothra was.
Especially, if one compared her progress to that of Optimus who was actually one of the pri mbers of the Butterfree species, which showed the vast difference between her and regular Butterfree.
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