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you were victorious, good job. Now, heal up and head back to the town with the fourth gym, the one with the trick floor and the ghost Pok�mon. Once back, head east in the city until you find a check-in station. Continue east, which you have to surf through. Keep going until you reach a town with a gym. The gym is closed right now. Heal up and go north until you find a big lake. Surf in the lake until you find a red Pok�mon floating near the center of the lake. Save your game now. Once you have saved your game, you should talk to the red creature. It will challenge you and turns out to be a level 30 red gyarados! It is a very rare colored Pok�mon nicknamed a "shiny" Pok�mon. What makes this gyarados different is that is uses a fire attack and is more powerful than a regular gyarados. You can either defeat it or catch it. If you are going to catch it, read the next paragraph. If you already have it or have beaten it already, skip the next paragraph.

It is extremely powerful and its dragon rage attack is killer. Just center on trying to take it down with your most effective attack. Nothing really will wipe it out in one shot so you have to keep on hitting it with attack after attack. If your Pok�mon faints and you have no other well developed Pok�mon, use one as your dummy Pok�mon. Don't attempt to attack, just use a Pok�mon for giving items. Have it give your main Pok�mon a revival potion, preferably one that gives back 1/2 the Pok�mon's HP bar. If it lives past another attack, have it give a potion to your main Pok�mon to assure it won't be KO'd in a short while. Then, switch back to your main Pok�mon and if needed, do it again. Soon enough, it should only have a sliver of life left. Throw out a Pok�ball, which it should break out of at the last second. Throw another one and it should stay still. Keep throwing Pok�balls until he is captured. If you KO him or run out of Pok�balls, restart your game. You only get one chance at this. Once completed, you can teach it swim, because if you're like me, you taught swim to a low level water Pok�mon. Gyarados is very powerful and you didn't even need to train him!

Gyarados:

lv 20 Bite

lv 25 Dragon Rage

lv 32 Leer

lv 41 Hydro Pump

lv 52 Hyper Beam

After you have either captured it or defeated it, exit the lake and talk to the guy near the fence in a cape . After talking to him, he will fly away. Now, return to the city to the south. Go into the house just above the Pok�mon center and the Gym (it's in between the two). The moment you walk in, you'll see Lance (the guy in the cape that you talked to at the lake above) duking it out with one of the people inside. He will then talk to you and reveal a hidden passageway. Enter it if you are ready and equipped. When you do enter it, you will find yourself in a basement. Every time you pass through one of the golden lion statues, you will have to fight two trainers. You can then go either way you want, there are equal challenges ahead. If you are going to stay left, watch out for the gray lines on the floor. If you step on them, you will have to fight a Pok�mon (most likely Koffing). Don't hit the transport square or you will go back to the start. Instead, take the stairs next to it. Now, you are on the 2nd floor where you will meet up with Lance and he will heal your Pok�mon. Talk to everyone, battle everyone, then talk to them again and be sure to check every object. After the floor is cleared and you have talked to everyone, go north of the stairs where you came in. Go north of those stairs and you should find another set of stairs, these stairs lead to another part of the 2nd floor . Search the floor and fight anyone there. Be sure to talk to them after the fight too and make sure to once again, search everything. Take the set of stairs at the northwest corner of the room and you will be on the 3rd floor. Once again, battle everyone, talk to everyone before and after battles and search everything. Then go south of the stairs and take the set of stairs to the next floor and grab the Pok�ball if you like. Then go back down and take a right at the stairs and down the hallway. You should see a steel divider blocking the next room. If you talked to everyone and searched everywhere, you should be able to open the door by pressing A. If not, then go back and do more searching and talking until the door opens.

Fight the guy inside and he will leave. Inspect his office once for good measure and talk to the bird there, then head back down to the 2nd floor where you saw the other steel door. Open it and go inside to meet Lance again. He will talk and got to the right, you go to the left. Your job is to talk to all three voltorbs and defeat them. After that, Lance will talk to you again. He'll give you HM 6 which allows you to break up whirlpools in the lakes and oceans while swimming. Bingo, you're done. Exit the building, recharge and go to the gym in town that was locked before.

The gym floor is a puzzle. You must slide in the correct order to reach the gym leader. Below is the correct patch, just follow the red line and you should make it.

The boss Yanagi isn't hard as long as you have trained some Pok�mon strong against ice. I just used Gyarados. He uses a level 27 Seel, a level 29 Dewgong and a level 31 Inomu. Nothing too tough, just keep your main Pok�mon healed with potions.

Alright, so, you've earned your seventh badge and you're anxious to get started on the eighth then zip to the showdown with the elite four. Make sure you get some repellants from the shop where you found the underground lair. They are 500 bucks and begin with a symbol that looks like this " :) ". Trust me, if you hate random battles, you should get a lot of these lil lifesavers, just make sure you have your best pok�mon in front. If a wild pok�mon matches or exceeds the first pok�mon in your line-up, you have to battle it. Now, quit yer lollygagging and go to the east of the city, keep going east until you find around three trainers and a cave on a couple of ledges. Fight your way up and enter the cave.

Make your way through the winding cave until you find a big patch of ice (pictured below). You have to find a way to slide to get to the entrance to your right. Follow the red line in the diagram below.

You should be able to make it with a little practice. Being used to Zelda like puzzles, I loved this cave. Once through, continue east and pick up the Pok�ball on the ice, it contains HM 7 which allows watersteps, so you can go up a waterfall blocking your path. Then take the high road on the cliff and continue east until you find a ladder; take it.

Tired of puzzles? Too bad hehe, you have more to come. In this room, you should see stones that you can push using strength. Push each of the four stones into the four different holes. Once done, just jump in one of the holes. If you're having trouble, just center on getting one stone in a hole at a time. There are more than four stones, but they are not needed to put down the holes, they are there to obstruct you.

Once down, slide around, using the newly dropped stones, until you get to the small island in the middle with a ladder and a Pok�ball on it. Take the ladder up. If you are having trouble, here's what to do. Go to the strip of land at the upper right hand side with the ladder on it. Stand at the bottom corner of the land and slide left into a rock, then down, then left, then up, then right. You should land at the middle island. Now, take the ladder up.

No puzzles in the next room, just go right until you find another ladder and use it. You'll find another mini puzzle of ice. Go to the right of the room and slide down until you hit the strip of land. Go to the right side of the wall, then take one step left, then jump down off the cliff where you should slide into a rock, then slide left until you hit another small patch of land where a ladder is located at. Use the ladder and go to the next level.

Yet another mini puzzle awaits you on this level. Go right until you find some stairs. Take the stairs and slide down, then right, then up, then left, then up, then left, then down, then left. Continue left until you find a ladder, use it.

Go to the left of the wall, then make one step right, slide down, then right, then down, then left, then down again. You should find the exit, take it.

Go south until you find another town. You can't go to the gym yet, so heal up and refresh your item index. Apparently, Team Rocket is starting up trouble again and you have to battle them. Fly back to the town called Kogame, where you got your bike and found the casino and the third gym leader. Go to the upper left hand corner of the city where you'll find a black tower, where you previously got your radio from. Enter it. Fight your way until you reach the top floor. Beat the man in the black hat and he will give you a key. Exit the building.

Go to the house behind the black tower and you'll find a blue floor and a staircase. Use the stairs. Once below, go south until you find the first passageway leading east. Go down it. You'll find a blue door. Press A and click the first option if there is one. The door should now be unlocked, so go ahead and walk in. Inside, you'll find some stairs, use them to go downstairs.

Keep going left once downstairs and fight the three trainers. There are three blue switches on the wall next to each TR trainer. Each switch opens a certain door or moves a certain wall. You have to switch each one in a specific order to open the iron doors and go to the bottom right corner of the room where a female Team Rocket member awaits you. There is no true combination, the doors are random and you will have to mix and match for a while before the doors and walls move so you can go to the bottom right corner of the room. It took me about 15 minutes to get the correct order. Once you get to the corner and find the female TR agent, fight her and go through the double blue doors. Once through, make your way east until you find some stairs, don't take them yet. Instead, go to the left of them and fight a trainer, then talk to the man in a black hat. He'll give you an item. Now, take the stairs up and you'll find yourself on the bottom floor of the Pok�mon shop. Take the elevator to the 1st floor and exit the building.

Go back to the black tower in town. Go to the third floor and keep going right until you reach a thin wall blocking some stairs. Inspect the gray box next to the door with the A button, then choose the first option. The door should now open. Fight the trainer inside and take the stairs. You can fight the two trainers in the floor if you want, otherwise, go to the left and take the stairs there. You should now be on the final floor. Fight the two trainer guards and talk to the guy in the black hat . He'll talk to you for a bit. Now, exit the building with ease now that the trainers are gone. Head back to the city where the 8th gym was, but was locked (the town you found after going through the ice cavern). The gym is now open! Heal up and prepare to fight.

The gym is located in the back of town. Once inside, take the stairs to the next floor, push the rocks in their proper holes. Once done, take the stairs to the right. Follow the path and walk over the rocks. Now you can fight the gym leader, Ibuki . She uses a Kingudora in the mid 30's, a level 37 dragonair (uses fire), a level 37 dragonair (uses electricity) and a level 37 dragonair. Not too bad, just make sure you are well trained. Once you win, you will not receive a badge, you will have to get it yourself.

In order to get the badge, you must go through the cave directly behind the gym, past the small lake. Once in, take the first ladder to the next level and take the door below. You should now be in a large cavern. Go to the left hand side and surf down until you see a wall of stones in the lake. Make sure you are on the left side of them. Keep going south until you see a small whirlpool . If you got HM 6 and taught it to a Pok�mon, simply go up to it, press the A button and choose the first option. The whirlpool should disperse and you should be able to proceed south. Go south until you can't go anymore, then go east until you find a small strip of land, do not go there. Instead, go to the strip of land to the northeast of it and pick up the Pok�ball there. Apparently, it is the badge. The 8th gym leader will approach you and ta