Mareep set off after Absol frolic. [i]"Hi Absol! How are you doing?"[/i] she asked. She looked back at Gabe before looking at Absol again.

Gabe waved with his hand to dismiss the apology. "No need to apologise for the nature of a pokemon." he said before he followed Bakuto and adjusted his pace to Bakuto's. Gabe listened to Bakuto and nodded. "Yeah it makes the league interesting yet challenging that you can only use the four types, or dual types. But it rules out a whole lot of pokemon." He looked surprised at Bakuto. You battled Henri already? Awesome. Henri is a cool guy, can't wait to take him on once."  

He listened to the pokedex. "That's true you know, Mareep is a sweetheart. Wouldn't hurt a flying-type. In fact, she hates have a type advantage. She battles for me but not if she doesn't have too." Mareep looked at the two trainers and let out a happy "Mareeep." 

Gabe chuckled. The Absol sure seemed to know what he was doing. Gabe glanced at the other trainer. "Yeah, I do have pokemon but I haven't tried to compete for the league yet, I still have to do my first gym battle. But like you, I don't have many that are even allowed in the league. I have Mareep and Machop that both have the wrong types, and only Machop would be good against Henri. I do have a fire type, Tepig. I picked him up in Unova but didn't do the league there either, let alone many gyms. Turned out I wasn't made for travelling alone so I returned home." Gabe shrugged. "it is time I start my round around the islands."  

He looked around. “I know a shortcut.  At the crooked tree, just a bit farther down the path, we should go left and after a while, once we reach a big boulder in the grass we go right. It'll lead to a less know path into the rocky area. I'm sure we'll come across a pokemon you like." 

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