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After some more tending to with the Mareep. Checking and tending for anything under her wool, her feet and so on. Mareep would probably feel a considerable amount better right now. As soon as she was done with Mareep, she'd move on to the Raticate, taking a lot of care to what she did. "Well you try to take care of your Pokemon, ok? But I suppose that would go without saying." She said with a laugh. "Your Pokemon are in good shape, and I have no doubt they will be even better down the road."

She then walked over to Scizor, checking him. "Its astounding to see Pokemon like this. So thoroughly trained like this." She said. "A Gym's discipline no doubt."

"Courtesy of the Mahogany Gym." I said.

"Ironic, considering." The nurse said with a bit of a laugh. "Your Pokemon are all fine." she said. "A bit on the tired side, probably from whatever training you underwent, but nothing that sitting on the sidelines for a hour or two wouldn't fix."

"Alright, all done." The nurse finally said. Scizor hopped out of the bed and walked over towards me. "Don't push things too hard now, ok?"

"Of course." I said.

"Here are your Pokeballs back." She then said, handing over Aden his two Pokeballs for Mareep and Raticate, and my one for Scizor.

"Thank you. Come on, Scizor. How about you relax for a bit, huh? Return." I said, recalling the bug back into the ball.

"Well Aden, lets have at it then, hm? We got a few options to choose from as far as battling goes. Theres the eastern route, the one heading towards Cherrygrove that we might be able to find a few trainers."

"If I may." The nurse spoke up. "The trainer's school is looking for tough battlers to test the likes of the students there. The gym would take care of that, but with Falkner and Jackie having their own battles to take care of, they're willing to take any help they can get."

"You know, that might not be a bad idea." I said. "How about it, Aden?"

"Oh there's some sort of place like the trainer's school here that has its own place where your mettle, some more extreme than others." The nurse said.

"The PRE gym back in Orre for example, Aden."

"There's the Trainer's House in Virdian City in Kanto also." The nurse then added.

"And in the much more extreme cases, probably the ultimate test for anyone that's a Pokemon Trainer, the region's local battle towers and frontier's for that matter. In fact, there's one here in Jhoto, Aden, just outside Olivine City."

"That's usually what most trainers do anyhow, because they know virtually the best of the best head off into the Frontiers." I said. "They are by no means easy. At any rate, we'll head off to the school then, thank you, Nurse."

"I'll call over there if you like and let the teacher know that you are coming." she said.

"Thank you, that'd be great." I said. "Come on, Aden, lets get going."

I lead Aden out of the Pokemon Center. "Truth be told, the Pokemon Trainer school isn't all that far from here actually." I said. "Just, whatever you do...don't mind the teacher there too much. He's...a bit weird." I said.

If only he knew...

We walked down the streets for a good few minutes until we found our way to the school. The school as Aden would find would be nothing what one would call luxurious. Nothing like what the Pre Gym would look like. Like most buildings, the school had that rustic feel to it, and it was fairly large. The grounds were fenced in, and had one large Pokemon battlefield, to teach, spar, and hold battles. No one was outside though so it would be safe to assume they were inside.

"Well, here we are Aden." I said.

"Well, this isn't the Orre region so." I said with a shrug. "At any rate. Come on Aden. Let's make ourselves known, shall we?" I asked. I finally made my way to the door and made my way inside.

Inside, it was a lobby with two halls connecting to it on each side. Classrooms, cafeteria, so on, anything that a school would possibly need. The lady behind the desk perked up and looked over towards me. "Oh! I take it that you are the ones that Nurse Joy called about?" she asked.

"That'd be us." I said.