Hello everyone and welcome to another story written by yours truly, Icee The Hedgehog. This is book number two of Poketech Academy, as promised. Please be sure to read book one before reading this one, although you could probably get away with not doing so, though you may be confused at some points.
Anyways, without any babbling from me, here's the prologue..
Prologue
I sigh, looking at the calendar as I get ready for work after moving my things into my new dorm room for the beginning of my second year at the Poketech Academy school. Tomorrow will officially mark the first anniversary of us being humans. It's hard to believe it's been just a year – with all the drama, it feels as if it had been five.
As Arceus had expected of us, we were assigned new jobs shortly after the meeting last year. Somehow, Arceus made it so that we were able to be hired at a few places, doing various jobs that we got randomly assigned to. I guess the owners of the places must know who we really are since they hired us without an application or interview, but are keeping it a secret from the general public, which is a good thing. Currently, I work at a diner which is a short walk from the school, and also a short walk from the apartments I lived in during the summer months. There, I take orders, deliver people's food and clean the tables. It's not a bad job once I got used to the late lunch breaks and having to deal with people constantly without raging at the ones that annoyed me (and boy was that hard to get used to), as customers in Mauville City tip very well if they get treated right. That and they all seemed to like me for some reason I don't get.
Luckily, since work and home wasn't more than walking distance away, I never had to learn to drive. I purposely tried not to need to learn, as the idea of driving just makes me get a headache. Unfourtunately, some of us didn't get that luxury – for example, Volcanion, my current best friend, had to learn to drive since he missed out on getting a spot in the apartments I lived in over summer and thus had to go get one online, which was all the way in LittleRoot town. I remember him always ranting about the two hour drive to and from work, since we both work at the same diner. I really don't mind if he rants, since I sometimes did the same (it was my new way of dealing with frustration, versus hitting whoever I was mad at – Volcanion taught me that, and I now know why he yelled at people so much durig the first months of school), but sometimes Volcanion's ranting gets aggravating. Like the one time at work we had to stay overtime because this couple would not leave the diner even when we needed to close – Volcanion sat there ranting about it in the kitchen until they left (and that took an entire four hours). Luckily, the boss didn't hear, or it would have gotten ugly.
In regards to friends, I've made a few. After we came to an understanding that I was not who made Hoopa leave, Volcanion has been hanging out with me on a regular basis. It started with just playing Smash Bros, but I then learned that we shared a lot of similarities. Short tempers, a girl we can't seem to gather up the courage to ask out, an extreme dislike of this whole situation of being humans and being forced to interact with some Legends we don't like very much and a distrust to humans just to name a few. We enjoyed having long conversations so much we started to work at the same diner, and even arranged things this year so that we could be roommates – which is a godsend, because I didn't want to be stuck with Zekrom for another year. Finally, maybe I ca enjoy coming back from work or school.
I still hang out with Hoopa's old group as well ( with the exception of Deoxys who just doesn't talk to me if at all possible). We don't talk a ton, but we are all still decent to each other, playing games an such together. Genesect's grown to be pretty quiet aside from giving us tips about the next test and such, Magearna's been talking more about various things most of those being some interesting things she's made for summer science fairs and the like, Regice enjoys going on about various game strategies he found online that we should try, Regirock likes bringing us new foods to try, and Registeel just likes to sleep in a corner. An akward bunch we are, but we get along.
Speaking of Hoopa, he did come back last week and is going to be on campus come our first day of school. He has been assigned a job, and sadly for me, it's at the same diner I work at. He starts today, and I'm not looking forward to hearing his mouth run the whole time at work. Despite that, I'm still grateful to know the kid's alive at least after whatever happened to him earlier– I just don't wish to hear him run his hole for my entire 8 hour shift. Luckily, he doesn't know my new dorm's number so he's not blowing up my phone- yet. Knowing him, I'll soon be getting my dorm's phone blown up every day by that little guy.
Oh. I almost forgot – Reshiram and Giratina. Yeah. They're still around, though I kind of wish they weren't. In recent days, Reshiram has been hinting to me that she would like to try again with us being a couple. It's not something I'm particularly interested in, if you want the truth. After our argument nearly a year ago that caused us to break up, I knew that Reshiram wasn't the one for me to be trying to get into a relationship with. She is nice, I'll give her that, but she's just too nieve. Just like Giratina said, it's probably because she's newer than Legendaries like me, and we just aren't able to see eye-to-eye. A friendship with Reshiram is just fine with me – but much more, no thanks. As for Giratina, we still hang out, but I've still not got the courage to confess to her. Volcanion says I should do it ASAP, but every time he tells me that, I just remind him that he has yet to confess to Magearna and he shuts up immediately.
I look up at the clock – it's nearly 6PM, and I've got to get walking to work. Well, here goes nothing. Hopefully working with Hoopa won't be as bad as it sounds.