Pokémon Adventures: Ruby & Sapphire

by Hidenori Kusaka & Satoshi Yamamoto

Ruby, son of the Petalburg Gym Leader Norman, flees home to pursue his dream of Pokémon Contests — hiding the fact that he's one of the strongest battlers in Hoenn. Sapphire, Professor Birch's wild daughter, has the opposite dream: conquer every Gym. Their 80-day bet drives the arc while Hoenn tears itself apart — Team Aqua awakens Kyogre, Team Magma awakens Groudon, and Norman must sacrifice himself to summon Rayquaza. Ruby erases Sapphire's memory of their confession with Celebi. Steven Stone dies holding the orbs.

60 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Archie — Leader of Team Aqua — a zealot who believes expanding the ocean will save the world, consumed by a blue god he thought he could control.
• Brawly — Dewford Gym Leader — a surfer-fighter who trains on the waves and battles with Fighting-types, bringing beach-bum energy to a war zone.
• Celebi — The Time Travel Pokémon — a mythical being whose power over time allowed Ruby to undo death and erase memory, at the cost of truth.
• Chic — Sapphire's Blaziken — her starter Pokémon and fiercest fighter, a fire-and-fighting powerhouse that evolved from the Torchic her father gave her.
• Courtney — Team Magma Admin — one of the 'Three Fires,' a fierce operative who carries out Maxie's schemes with zealous precision.
• Feefee — Ruby's Milotic — a Beauty Contest champion who evolved from an 'ugly' Feebas only when Ruby learned that true beauty isn't skin deep.
• Flannery — Lavaridge Gym Leader — a hot-blooded newcomer trying to live up to her grandfather's legacy, fighting with Fire-types and more enthusiasm than experie
• Fofo — Ruby's Castform — a weather-shifting Pokémon originally belonging to Mr. Stone, given to Ruby and used in Smart Contests.
• Groudon — The Continent Pokémon — an ancient god of land whose awakening turns Hoenn into a furnace, controlled by no one, worshipped by fools.
• Juan — Wallace's mentor and predecessor as Sootopolis Gym Leader — a refined Water-type master who trains Ruby and Sapphire on Mirage Island for the final ba
• Kiki — Ruby's Delcatty — a Cute Contest specialist who evolved from Skitty, the embodiment of Ruby's aesthetic sensibility.
• Kyogre — The Sea Basin Pokémon — an ancient god of ocean whose awakening drowns Hoenn in endless rain, answering to nothing but its own primordial hunger.
• Lorry — Sapphire's Wailord — a colossal whale Pokémon used for ocean travel, the largest member of her team by a considerable margin.
• Matt — Team Aqua Admin — the muscle of the Sea Scheme, a brute-force enforcer who handles the operations that require breaking things rather than thinking ab
• Maxie — Leader of Team Magma — a cold strategist who wants to expand the land for humanity's sake, devoured by the red god he tried to leash.
• Mr. Stone — President of Devon Corporation and Steven's father — a businessman whose company's technology becomes critical infrastructure during the Hoenn crisis.
• Nana — Ruby's Mightyena — a Cool Contest champion who moves like a shadow and fights like a nightmare, the living proof that Ruby's battle power never went a
• Norman — Petalburg Gym Leader, Ruby's father — a man who trained his son to be a perfect battler and lost him because of it, now carrying a secret mission that
• Phado — Sapphire's Donphan — a rolling wrecking ball of a Ground-type that joined the team after helping restore New Mauville.
• Professor Birch — Sapphire's father, Hoenn's regional professor — a burly field researcher who studies Pokémon habitats in the wild and raised his daughter to be just a
• Rara — Ruby's Gardevoir — a Smart Contest champion who was lent to Wally as a Ralts and evolved through both trainers' journeys, embodying the arc's theme of
• Rayquaza — The Sky High Pokémon — the ancient mediator of land and sea, sleeping in the ozone layer until the world needs it to silence the gods below.
• Regice — The Iceberg Pokémon — a Legendary Golem of frozen air, one of three ancient constructs Steven Stone sacrificed himself to wield.
• Regirock — The Rock Peak Pokémon — one of three Legendary Golems controlled by Steven Stone to contain the crisis, each one a fragment of an ancient will.
• Registeel — The Iron Pokémon — a Legendary Golem of compressed metal, the last of three ancient constructs that Steven Stone died controlling.
• Rono — Sapphire's Aggron — an armored fortress of a Pokémon that evolved from a wild Aron she befriended, the tank of her team.
• Roxanne — Rustboro Gym Leader — a studious young woman who fights with Rock-types and teaches at the Trainers' School, the first Gym Leader Sapphire defeats.
• Ruby — Norman's son, a secretly extraordinary battler who renounced fighting after a childhood trauma and now pursues Pokémon Contests with obsessive devotio
• Sapphire Birch — Professor Birch's daughter, a wild girl raised partly in nature who fights with her fists and teeth and won't stop until she's beaten every Gym in Hoe
• Shelly — Team Aqua Admin — sharp-tongued intelligence operative who handles media manipulation and reconnaissance for Archie's sea expansion campaign.
• Steven Stone — Hoenn's Champion, a steel-and-stone collector who fights with quiet precision — died holding back the tide long enough for children to save the world.
• Tabitha — Team Magma Admin — one of the 'Three Fires,' the field commander tasked with controlling Kyogre while Maxie handles Groudon.
• Tate and Liza — Mossdeep Gym Leaders — psychic twins who fight as one, their telepathic bond making them the most difficult double battle in Hoenn.
• Troppy — Sapphire's Tropius — her flying mount and aerial partner, a gentle giant of the canopy that carries her across Hoenn.
• Wallace — Sootopolis Gym Leader and master Coordinator — the only person who sees beauty and battle as the same art, and Ruby's true mentor in both.
• Wally — A sickly boy who borrowed Ruby's Ralts, trained under Norman at Sky Pillar, and awakened the dragon that saved the world — proving that fragility and
• Wattson — Mauville Gym Leader — a jovial old inventor who laughs at everything and fights with Electric-types, hiding sharp tactical thinking behind grandfather
• Winona — Fortree Gym Leader — the Pokémon Association's supervisor of Hoenn's Gym Leaders, a graceful Flying-type specialist with complicated feelings about Wa
• Zuzu — Ruby's Swampert — a Tough Contest champion and powerhouse fighter who evolved from the Mudkip Ruby received at the start of his journey.

Locations

• Dewford Town — A small island town where Brawly surfs and fights — and where Sapphire earned her second badge through sheer determination.
• Fortree City — A city built in the treetops — Winona's domain and the meeting place where Hoenn's Gym Leaders gathered to decide the fate of the region.
• Lavaridge Town — A mountain town built around hot springs and volcanic heat — Flannery's Gym sits at the foot of Mt. Chimney, where Team Magma made their first move.
• Littleroot Town — A tiny town at Hoenn's southern edge where Ruby's journey begins and Sapphire's world collides with his — two houses, a lab, and a forest full of teet
• Mauville City — Hoenn's central crossroads — Wattson's Electric Gym sits above New Mauville, the underground power facility that hums beneath the city.
• Mirage Island — A phantom island that appears and vanishes — where Juan trained Ruby and Sapphire for the final battle, and where Rono evolved into Aggron.
• Mossdeep City — An island city of science and psychic power — home to Tate and Liza's Gym and the Space Center, where Steven Stone coordinates the crisis response.
• Mt. Pyre — Hoenn's sacred mountain and Pokémon cemetery — the resting place of the Red and Blue Orbs until Team Aqua and Team Magma stole them.
• Petalburg City — Norman's domain — the city Ruby ran away from and the Gym he'll never challenge, where a father trains alone and waits for a son who isn't coming back
• Rustboro City — The stone city — home to Roxanne's Gym, Devon Corporation, and the Pokémon Trainers' School. Industry and education built on bedrock.
• Seafloor Cavern — A cave at the bottom of the ocean where the ancient gods slept — until two fools with colored orbs decided to play god themselves.
• Sky Pillar — A crumbling tower that reaches into the clouds — where Wally climbed fifty floors, healed his lungs, and woke the dragon that saved the world.
• Slateport City — Hoenn's bustling port city — markets, a museum, and a Contest Hall where Ruby first performs, all pressed against the southern coast.
• Sootopolis City — A city inside a volcanic crater filled with water — the arena where gods collide, champions die, and two children stop the end of the world.
• Weather Institute — A research facility on Route 119 where Norman finally confronted Ruby — and where father and son fought their war of expectations in the rain.

Items

• Blue Orb — An ancient artifact that links its wielder to Kyogre — a beautiful blue sphere that drowns the mind of anyone who touches it in oceanic will.
• Contest Ribbons — Twenty ribbons across five categories and four ranks — the proof of Ruby's mastery and the stakes of his half of the 80-day bet.
• Grand Meteor Fragment — A piece of the Grand Meteor — the weapon Ruby and Sapphire used to force the Red and Blue Orbs out of Archie and Maxie's possessed bodies.
• Hoenn Gym Badges — Eight badges from eight Gym Leaders — the proof of Sapphire's strength and the stakes of her half of the 80-day bet.
• Red Orb — An ancient artifact that links its wielder to Groudon — not a tool of control but a parasitic bond that overwrites human consciousness with geological
• Running Shoes — Norman's birthday gift to Ruby — shoes designed for speed that saved both their lives during their Weather Institute battle and proved a father's love

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