Chapter 301 Unblessed Birth
This second round of gym battles ended with Arthur taking two heads, but then the fire-inducing and intimidating wind speed dog that appeared several times came out with a speed-up move.
Although he won the battle, Xia Bo was deeply doubting his life.
Is this Charizard that looks like a god of war really the Charmeleon that he helped evolve a few months ago?
Isn't it said that mega evolution is an overclocking mode? How come the opponent is still full of energy after fighting for ten minutes, and even crystallized in the end! ?
This is less than a year old! ?
"Arthur is gifted." Zhou You explained nonsensically.
"Maybe, but I would rather believe that it's because you changed a Charizard or gave it the holy ash to carry with you." Xia Bo didn't even believe what he said, "But I remember that this Charizard had shown amazing endurance a long time ago..."
This bottomless physical strength that seems like a legendary elf can only be described as gifted.
It's really not a good idea to fight a protracted war with this Charizard.
After the battle, Xia Bo temporarily put aside the deep doubts in his mind and looked at Zhou You who was about to leave: "Qiao Qiao, have you heard of the Ice Vulpix?"
"Are you referring to the subspecies of Vulpix originally discovered in Alola?"
Vulpix (Alola's appearance) was first discovered in the Lanakila Snow Mountain in the Alola region. In order to adapt to the local environment, the Vulpix/Ninetail there changed from fire attribute to ice and ice/demon attribute.
However, after losing the fire attribute, a few Vulpix alone were often preyed on by Magura, causing this kind of elf to give up the habit of living alone and live in groups on the holy mountain to accept the protection of the Alola Ninetail in the tribe.
Seeing that Zhou You had a certain understanding of this, Xia Bo did not elaborate on the knowledge related to Vulpix, but directly took him to a cold cave on the Twin Island, where Xia Bo placed some ice attribute elves that he had conquered.
After arriving here, Zhou You understood why the other party suddenly mentioned the Ice Vulpix.
At the edge of the cave on the Twin Island, a special Vulpix was staring timidly at a group of fire-type elves playing outdoors.
Unlike the normal Vulpix, this Vulpix has four light blue claws, and most of its body is white, which looks very fluffy. Its eyes are a gradient from blue to white, and its ears are dark blue inside, with two tufts of thick hair outside.
It turned out to be a rare ice-type subspecies Vulpix.
"Is this the Vulpix that was hatched after you moved here, Xia Bo?" Zhou You guessed.
"Yes, it was born by Nine-tail a few days after moving here. It was a newborn that was just hatched two weeks ago. When I saw it was all white, I thought it was another different color Vulpix at first, but when the flames of other Vulpix accidentally injured it, I realized the seriousness of the problem."
Xia Bo recalled the accident that almost caused a tragedy, and his face was full of fear.
At the beginning, he handed the newborn to the Vulpix and Nine-tail that he raised as usual. After all, as the same kind, they are the best choice to raise children.
Wild elves will stay away from elves with different colors due to reasons such as protective colors, but artificially raised elves will not do this. Soon, even the ice Vulpix felt that it was an ordinary Vulpix under the care of its own kind.
This ice Vulpix is quite lively and outgoing, and also likes to play with its own kind, but the painful look it shows from time to time makes Xia Bo and the Vulpix puzzled.
As time passed, the physique of this Vulpix became weaker and weaker...
"Let a newly born ice elf live with a fire elf, of course it will become weak." Zhou You can easily guess the reason, "The body temperature of the Vulpix and the Nine-tail is too high for it to be born."
Xia Bo nodded when he heard this: "Yes, but no one thought of this. They just thought that the body temperature of this Vulpix was a little low, until one day the Vulpix spit out a little spark to help it clean its dirty body..."
The operation that would never cause any problems in general caused a critical and effective damage to the defenseless Vulpix.
After paying the price of almost losing a newborn baby less than a week old, Xia Bo finally learned from a cousin of Professor Oak who was far away in Alola that there was an ice-attributed Vulpix in this world.
The environment transformed by Articuno has formed an environment similar to Mount Lanakila near the Twin Islands.
At first, there were no Vulpix and Ninetail living here until Xia Bo came here more than two months ago.
"But this is not normal." Zhou You frowned, noticing the abnormality in this accident. "As far as I know, the Pokémon eggs of subspecies will be different from normal ones, and this Ice Vulpix doesn't show any signs of ice attributes?"
"That's the problem."
Xia Bo sighed helplessly: "First of all, its Pokémon eggs are the same as ordinary Vulpix eggs. My Pokémon was picked up from the wild a few days after moving here."
Dr. Chengye Oak speculated that this might be because they were still in a state of stress after just moving to this environment, and the eggs born at this time are more likely to have accidents - this time it was because the Ice Vulpix was hatched from the Vulpix egg.
"And this abnormality is also reflected in the ability of this Ice Vulpix - it has neither the characteristics of attracting fire and drought, nor the characteristics of hiding in snow and falling snow, and it has never performed a prototype of a fire or ice attribute move."
Ice and fire are naturally in conflict, and it is a miracle that it can hatch even though it has been in a fire attribute environment since the egg.
The fact that it has both ice and fire attributes and conflicts with each other does not mean that it will acquire water attributes... Although ice in nature will turn into water, the attributes of elves do not follow the changes in physical states.
The result is that this Ice Vulpix loses the energy of both attributes at the same time, and its body continues to weaken due to this conflict.
Hearing this, Zhou You looked at the Ice Vulpix who was still looking forward to his fellow tribesmen playing outside. The cold ice attribute coupled with the extroverted personality like fire is really a headache.
In order to protect this ice Vulpix from further harm, Vulpix and Kyuubi had to reluctantly entrust it to several ice-type elves that Xia Bo had just captured for it.
After explaining the whole story, Xia Bo picked up the Ice Vulpix and handed it to Zhou You: "Qiao Qiao, if it continues to look at its peers outside every day while staying in the cave, the temperament and mental state of this Ice Vulpix will be affected, so I thought about it and decided to give it to you."
"Give it to me?"
Looking at the fluffy hair and watery eyes of the little Vulpix, Zhou You suddenly felt flattered: "I thought you were telling me this because you wanted me to give you holy ash. I have holy ash with me. Let's try it first."
"Ahem, holy ash is just one of the reasons. Maybe holy ash can cure its problem." Xia Bo, who had one of his purposes revealed, coughed twice, "But I mainly want it to go outdoors and get in touch with a more colorful world and elves. I plan to stay on the Twin Islands. It has a fiery personality. Sooner or later, I will entrust it to a trustworthy trainer, and you happen to be the best choice."