"You weren't there, Roy, but I think Lion would have aid you were
weird too" Tiger said kindly, and looked at Victor. "Congrats on
your badge!" He said cheerfully.
“Thank you!” Victor said. “Also, I hope the big cats here didn’t
scramble a lot.” He joked.
The trainer looked at his angry Cyndaquil. “Blaze... also I promise
to use you in any further battle. I didn’t have a choice and didn’t
want you to be steamrolled by rollout.”
"♪ Let's go sweep ♪ That Bugsy! ♪ That Bugsy, we will soon sweep. ♪
Sweep! With me. ♪ Sweep! With you. ♪ Together! We'll sweep his
bugs! ♪" Roy sang cheerfully, marching to Bugsy's gym.
Blaze looked at the flamethrower and tried to smile a little.
"You'll be pretty much my ace in the next gym since Bugsy uses bug
types." Victor said to Blaze. The Cyndaquil nodded.
"Welp, I'll catch you guys later. I've got a date with Bugsy, and
I'm not planning on making it a date to die for. See ya!" Roy ran
for the Azalea Gym.
"Seriously, it was like some big cat party." Mel snorted. "I
should've chambed my name to--" She wasn't able to finish, as
Dewott clamped his hand over her mouth.
Suddenly a real bark/roar combination was sensed by Victor's
ears.
"Er... Mel, you sure know how to roar." Victor said. "Though it
sounds more dog-like than it should be."
"I'll join you 'cause that sounded freaky." Mel said and followed
Victor, hugging herself and looking around nervously. Dewott leapt
back onto her shoulder.
As Victor got closer and closer to the howling sound, the
temperature of the area increased. He went towards the source of
the heat and sound, and suddenly, a black canine think jumped on
the trainer.
Blaze and Volt instinctively used ember and thunder wave, both of
the moves hit both Victor and the Pokémon. The Pokémon absorbed
ember but got paralysed.
The Pokémon fell down and Victor’s Pokedex took its first chance to
shine in Johto. “Houndour, the dark Pokémon. It is smart enough to
hunt in packs. It uses a variety of cries for communicating with
others“ It said.
Victor looked at the dark Pokemon who was now growling, angered by
the water gun and thunder wave. The Pokemon stumbled and limped
slightly, revealing that its front right paw was hurt.