veilsight said: ‘ did you achieve all you wanted to do? ‘
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He freezes in front of the exit. By now the crowd has dispersed, he could see how late it was from the darkness outside the windows. Even the lobby itself had grown empty and quiet, like a ghost town that helped earn the Gym its name. Hope hadn’t expected for Allister to follow him out here, much less even ask him a question that he had trouble finding an answer for.
He stared down at the newly acquired gym badge in his hand. He didn’t like how the battle went down, he of all people can admit he won by the skin of his teeth. And he knew that the crowd noticed it as well. Maybe it was worthy enough to put on a good show, but to him it told a different story. Changing my strategies still isn’t enough. Its only going to get harder from here, what’s going to happen if he can’t make up his mind and choose a team that was worthy of being a Champion team like Leon’s Pokemon?
Hop draws a shaky breath out. He needed a proper game plan, he needed it now. All he achieved so far was making this far away from Postwick, but was that really enough?
No, he thought, I still have to make it to the very end. He will reach Championships, he will beat Leon, with a team he raised properly and believed in hard enough to make it there. He swore he could feel Thwackey’s Pokeball move in response to his thoughts. It’ll be fine, won’t it? He has to keep going until he made it to his goal, his own reputation wasn’t on the line anymore, now it was Leon’s. In a way, it always had been, he was just too stupid to realize it until now.
“Nah, Allister, I haven’t.” He finally opens the exit’s doors, allowing the cool night air to rush in and hit against his skin. He turns his head to finally look at Allister, staring into his bright violet eyes as he gives him his trademarked smile. The others must be ahead of him by now, if he knew any better than Vic was somewhere Glimwood Tangle by now. It was time to catch up to him!
