The next morning, Gary and Ash's group left Pallet Town from different directions.
Gary and Sabrina rode on Aerodactyl and flew directly to Cinnabar Island.
Cinnabar Island is close to the Seafoam Islands, so all supplies would be made on Cinnabar Island.
In fact, Gary also knew that there was an Articuno in another place, which was the Snow Mountain in the Johto Region, where the legend of Articuno has been circulating.
It is said that 1,200 years ago, three travelers were trapped in the mountains. At this time, an Articuno led them to a safe place.
A year later, the three travelers returned here and made a statue for Articuno to express their gratitude.
So Gary knew two places where Articuno could be found, and he just needed to look for them slowly.
As long as he was sure that Articuno existed in the Seafoam Islands, it would be easy for Gary to find Articuno.
Although the three Legendary Birds have different attributes, they all have the same ability, which is to change the surrounding weather.
The three Legendary Birds have the habit of migrating. When they are tired of flying, they will look for a place to rest.
These places are basically fixed. They will take a temporary rest in the middle, but as long as there is no accident, they will settle in a fixed place.
After arriving at Cinnabar Island, Gary and Sabrina replenished supplies in the town and then took a boat to the Seafoam Islands.
Although the Seafoam Islands are not suitable for human habitation, Trainers on Cinnabar Island sometimes come to the Seafoam Islands to train Pokémon and capture Pokémon.
The cave climate inside the Seafoam Islands is cold, and many Ice-type Pokémon live there.
Trainers who want to capture Ice Pokémon occasionally come to the Seafoam Islands to look for them, but there are still relatively few people.
After all, the Seafoam Islands are in a temperate climate, with four seasons like summer.
Ice Pokémon basically hide in the cave and only come out at night.
Gary and Sabrina found a suitable place for camping and set up a tent. Sabrina also released her Pokémon to help.
Psychic Pokémon were very helpful, especially Sabrina's Mr. Mime, who was responsible for all the logistics along the way.
Among Sabrina's Pokémon, only Slowpoke was relatively lazy.
Although this Slowpoke used to be very unruly, it usually liked to lie in one place and be in a daze.
Just as everyone was busy setting up the tent, a Shellder came out from nowhere.
When the Shellder saw the dazed Slowpoke, it jumped over and bit Slowpoke's tail.
Slowpoke felt its tail being bitten by something and turned around to see that it was bitten by a Shellder.
Then, its body burst into an incandescent evolution light.
The sudden strong light attracted Gary and Sabrina, who were setting up the tent, and they all looked at Slowpoke.
Gary was confused because he didn't see the Shellder appear and didn't know what was going on. Orıginal content can be found at 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝•𝖿𝗂𝗋𝖾•𝘯𝘦𝘵
Sabrina was also confused.
Under the two's confusion, Slowpoke's body changed in the light, and it slowly became taller, and a spiral shell grew on its tail.
The light dissipated, and Slowpoke evolved into Slowbro.
But... this Slowbro was a little different.
The spiral-shaped shell on its tail was not gray, but a golden color, which is the color of a Shiny Slowbro's tail, but the color of Slowbro's body was still the pink of an ordinary Slowbro.
"Evolved?" Sabrina asked in surprise.
Sabrina didn't plan to let Slowpoke evolve, and she didn't know what was going on.
"This is the Seafoam Islands, and the cave is a place where Shellder live. It should be that Shellder bit Slowpoke's tail, which made it evolve into Slowbro," Gary analyzed.
"It turned out to be ..." Sabrina couldn't accept it.
It wasn't that she didn't want Slowpoke to evolve.
Even if it evolved, Sabrina would choose a Shellder with higher potential. What's going on now?
"But your Slowbro's shell is different from that of an ordinary Slowbro."
Gary took out the Pokédex and scanned Slowbro. The Pokédex showed a photo of a normal Slowbro.
Sabrina looked at it, compared it, and asked in confusion, "It's really different, why is this?"
Gary frowned and thought for a while, and suddenly thought of a possibility, that is, the Shellder that bit Slowpoke's tail was a Shiny Shellder, so after evolving, the color of the shell on the tail was different.
"If I'm not mistaken, that Shellder should be a Shiny, so after evolving, the color of the shell is different," Gary said.
Sabrina was even more surprised.
It's okay to evolve unexpectedly, but the Shellder is actually a Shiny, the probability is very high.
It's just a pity that the process was not filmed. If it was filmed and posted online, it would definitely become a hot video.
Many scholars of the Pokémon world would like to borrow Sabrina's Pokémon to study it.
Gary's heart was bleeding. The appearance of this Shellder should be caused by the Shiny Charm.
Gary has only captured three Shiny Pokémon so far.
He finally encountered the fourth one, and Sabrina's Slowpoke took advantage of it.
[LV33 Slowbro/Quasi-Elite]
However, judging from the basic introduction of Slowbro, the potential of that Shellder should not be high.
After all, Slowbro also had the potential of quasi-elite before it evolved.
The matter of Slowpoke's evolution came to an end...!
Gary and Sabrina continued to organize the tent. After all the logistics were handled, Gary came to an open space and released Zapdos.
"Zapdos, can you feel the change in the surrounding climate?" Gary asked.
Zapdos rushed into the clouds of the sky and came down after a while to report the information it had discovered.
According to Sabrina's translation, Zapdos sensed cold air in the clouds, which means that Articuno had appeared nearby, and it was recently.
Cold air will move with the climate, and it is impossible to hover in the Seafoam Islands' sky all the time.
This means that Articuno either just passed by the Seafoam Islands or stopped here to recover its energy.
Articuno needs the natural cold environment to recover its energy, so if Articuno is really there, it should also enter the cave.
"Sabrina, Articuno is likely in the cave in the Seafoam Islands. Let's get ready and go into the cave to look for Articuno at night," Gary said.
Sabrina nodded. She was also very excited at the moment and wanted to see Articuno.
Gary and Sabrina came out of the tent, leaving Mr. Mime watching.
Gary and Sabrina came to the entrance of the cave inside the Seafoam Islands. After entering, Gary threw a Poké Ball.
Gary released an ice-blue snow fox.
[LV50 Glaceon/Quasi-Elite]