Since the next Captain, Kiawe, is a Fire
Pokémon specialist, he lives on a volcano.
Because of course he does. Fire
trainers don’t really ‘do’ subtlety. Wela
Volcano, which is named for the Hawaiian word for heat or burning, and
corresponds to Haleakala in the real world, looms over the northeast corner of
Akala Island. Although many of its
basalt flows are still glowing red from the last eruption, the volcano is
perfectly safe – or at least, this is the claim made by the Seismic Sisters, a
set of Alolan triplets who maintain tunnels that provide surprisingly easy
access up and down its slopes. Among the
hardy, fire-tolerant Pokémon that live there is a wily black lizard Pokémon
called Salandit, a Fire/Poison-type, which nearly blows my Trumbeak out of the
sky with Dragon Rage. I decide to retire
my Butterfree and recruit one in her place (a female, which I’m told is
important); that Dragon Rage is sure to come in handy as long as we’re still
low-level.
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