Location: Palegrove Road -> Shanama Town
While the remaining pack of Houndour run about in circles, you take a Poké Ball and peer at the visible snow hole. You see their leader, Houndoom, presumably incapacitated by the Bounce attack from Cuddles. You toss the Poké Ball inside, red lights following the sequence of capturing said Pokémon.
As you wait, you heard a sharp click. You grin at what you see - a Poké Ball that ceased moving after some time, sitting cozily on the snow bed. You bend your way to pick up the Poké Ball and raise it above your head. You just caught a Houndoom! An addition to be welcomed in your team! All that kinda makes you wanna buy some ice cream, and so you go celebrate by buying some ice creams on the cart that you don't recall being there, but it
happened to be there.
The vendor, who is apparently the same person who sold you poisonous ice creams, widens his eyes with perplexity in his expression.
"Wha... what are you doing here?! Please, leave me alone!" He shooed, but his gesture doesn't seem to sync with his words. He is shivering, as if he is cold or perhaps, scared. Is there something troubling for him? You approach the cart and ask him what's the big deal and explain.
"I have nothing to share! Not with you, at least! Just leave my stand! Go away!" However, he refused to budge. It doesn't seem that he will listen to what you have to say either, but to be true to your purpose for coming here, you request for two Casteliacones while...realizing a bit late that you don't carry any money in your wallet. Immediately, he hands you what you ordered, if smaller in size than the previous, then turns his back and sit down on the snow. You can hear his wailing after you received your ice creams, so you try to talk your way to him but he continued before you do, "No! I don't need your money either! That was a foolish goal I regretted ever since! Just scram already!"
It seems that there's nothing you can really do other than bothering him any further, which isn't a good idea. You bid your farewell toward the man in orange uniform, a bit unsatisfied with the result you get. Doesn't stop you from munching your ice cream though, or at least Cuddles does warn you that you shouldn't be eating these, twice. You tell Cuddles that it's alright, After all, what's the worst thing that can happen from eating a purple, glowing ice cream? So you take a bite, which tastes really great but causes your vision to blur once more. Good thing that you bought some Antidotes to prevent that, so you drink it whole and cure your poison, then munch on it again...
...Oh no, you get poisoned again! This time, you eat the ice cream whole then repeat the process again. Now that you're cured from poison twice, you're left with another ice cream that hasn't gotten any attention yet. The urge to eat it draws to you, but you manage to hold it off by putting it inside your bag. You wonder why you eat the ice cream anyway when you're aware that they're clearly poisonous, and putting said thing inside the bag. You don't want to think about it too much, though Cuddles seems to be not amused by your weird way of action.
With the whole disturbance coming to an end, you find yourself stepping on snow-covered cobblestones. Ahead lies more houses made out of stacked stones and wood, curved roofs of wide eaves blanketed by snow yet leaving the grounds below bare. People and Pokémon can also be seen interacting with each other, in a lively place known as Shanama Town. History speaks of this civilization being the result of two different yet closely situated towns conjoining into what you see right now. As fascinating as it may be, you don't deter yourself from visiting the Pokémon Center first.
As you leave the Pokémon Center you visited just now, you think for a moment. There are many things you can do, aside from buying anything since you're likely to not get a good response for it. Now then, what are you going to do?
- Sit on a bench and see what happens!
- Walk around and scavenge for items!
- Find and defeat the Gym Leader!
- Participate in a Pokémon Cup!
- Eat the Casteliacone!
