"Oh Arceus, both the parents are so burnt they're unrecognizable... Quick! Survey the area for young two children! Now! Please, Arceus, please let them be alive..."
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"That wraps it up Miss Minami. You've passed with flying colors!" The young girl blushed, trying to contain the smile starting to form on her face. "Now here is your styler. This will be very important... FOR WHEN YOU HELP US TAKE OVER THE WORLD!"
She dropped the device, startled at the man's outburst. "E-excuse me?" She stuttered, baffled. The man let loose a small chuckle.
"Sorry," he began, "messing with you kids is just too much fun. Expecially transfers." The girl laughed nervously, and bent over to pick up her styler. "So, um, where do I go from here?"
"Your teacher, Ms. April should be here to-" He was cut short when a woman, the transfer assumed was said teacher, burst into the room. "Ah! You must be our new student, the one from Fiore?" The girl nodded her head quickly.
Mrs. April giggled at her reaction. "Darling, there's no reason to be so nervous! I can assure you that you will be welcomed with open arms at our school. You'll love your new peers, I know it."
The teacher led the girl to her new classroom, where a group of boys and girls were gossiping about the new kid. "You stay out her for a moment. I'll get their attention." Mrs. April walked into the room, and the class immediately rushed to their seats.
"Okay class," she began, "as you all know today we have a new addition to our class today. I expect all of you to show her-" The class erupted into a series of whispers and giggles once more.
Mrs. April cleared her throat loudly, which caused everyone to fall silent.
"As I was saying," she tried once more, glaring at her students, "I expect all of you to show her kindness. Especially considering she is not from this region, as the majority of you are."
The teacher motioned the new student to come in, and she obliged. The girl looked around the room of students. She shifted her feet, uncomfortable with the attention she was receiving.
The first person that caught her eye was a boy. He looked quite uninterested in what was happening, as he drew circles on his desk with his finger, and had his head held up with his hand.
Well, to be honest, it wasn't the boy who intrigued her. It was his hair, he had hair that looked like it deified the laws of gravity. She pondered how he got it to stay up like that. Without warning, he looked up and caught her staring.
The blood rushed to her cheeks, and she looked down immediately, embarrassed. "Why don't you introduce yourself, dear?"
"Huh?" The girl looked up, suddenly intensely aware of her surroundings. "Oh, yeah. I'm Summer Minami. Before coming to Almia, I lived in Summerland which is in Fiore."
She stole a glance at the boy she was looking at before. He looked at her, emotionless besides a hint of curiosity in his eyes.
"Welcome to our class, Summer. Get yourself introduced to your new classmates. After that," she surveyed the room, "Alexis Rin and Ben Natsuya can show you around the school. Raise your hands, you two."
A tall girl with curly red hair raised her hand, as did the boy with the gravity-deifying hair. Summer smiled nervously, as Mrs. April walked out of the room.
The students looked at one another, before focusing on Summer. Then they shot questions at her like bullets. "Are you really from Fiore?" One boy asked.
"Do you know Lunick and Solona?" Another student yelled. "Do you find it ironic that your name is Summer, and your from Summerland? Cause I do." A girl in the back of the crowd said. "You single, hot stuff?"
Everyone turned toward a blonde boy in the center of the crowd.
"What? I'm interested so I asked, sue me." He said, raising his hands up in defense. "Okay, seriously Casey? Seriously? You're impossible sometimes." Alexis groaned, smacking the back of his head. "Idiot..." She mumbled, and led Ben and Summer out of the room.
"I'm really sorry about him. There are just some people who are born stupid. He's one of them." Alexis stated, as she and Ben led me to a room across the hall from ours.
"So hey..." Summer began nervously, twiddling her thumbs. The two looked at her with intrigue. "About when I was, um, looking at you earlier..." Ben chuckled at her.
"I don't blame you. Most people do when they see my hair." Summer sighed with relief, and cast a warm smile at him. "This is Mr. Kincaid's room. Try not to breathe the same air as him too long, all that hairspray might kill you." Alexis joked.
"So do we have any upper or lower classmen?" Summer asked, as they headed toward the library.
Ben nodded, "We don't have any lower classmen, seeing as we're the lowest grade. However there are two more grades we have to go through before we graduate."
"All the grades go to the same teachers!" Alexis jumped in. "We just go at different times, and we learn different information." Summer nodded, imploring them to continue. "You take the same three classes every year. It just gets more complex as you move up."
"What are the classes?" Summer asked, walking into the library and sitting at a table. Alexis sat down next to her. "I think learning about Pokemon types, moves and abilities is one."
Ben sat across for them. "There's health. You basically learn how to treat human and pokemon wounds. We do physical stuff in there too though."
"Specialized classes take up the last class. Basically they separate the students into rangers, operators, and mechanics into groups for that one." Alexis finished. Summer nodded.
They were finishing up their tour of the school as the bells started to sound. "Time for special classes! Summer, what are you taking?" Ben asked, running down the stairs. "Oh, I'm aspiring to be a ranger!" Summer smiled proudly.
"Awesome! Me too! C'mon, we can go together!" Ben's laughter filled the air as he hooked his arm around Summer's and ran off, yelling a quick goodbye to Alexis. "So!" Summer huffed out while running off to the final class of the day. "What class is Alexis taking?"
They finally arrived at the area outside the school, just in time to see more and more of their classmates flooding in. "Looking around now, I don't see the blonde perve either." Ben laughed at her comment.
"Alexis is trying to be a mechanic, she's by far the smartest person in our grade. The 'blonde perve' aka. Casey Kurasshu, is studying to be an operator."
"Okay class!" The teacher yelled. "Today's class is special. I've brought in some bidoof, so that I can evaluate your individual skills. Please, if you're not performing a capture, do not be near the bidoof and try to keep quiet!"
He cast an irritated look at a group of boys snickering in the back. "We'll go in alphabetical order. First up is," he glanced at the clipboard in his hand. "Jessica Anderson!"
Summer's hand instinctively reached to grab her styler. She typically wasn't one to show off, but this was her chance. Her chance to show that she belonged here, even though she had been half a year late. She was eager to show that all her effort, practice, and studying over the past seven years had paid off.
The minutes seemed like hours, as she sat impatiently as each ranger-to-be took his or her turn. Arceus, why did her last name have to start with an M?
Summer smiled widely as the name before her's was called. She whipped out her school styler, a look of determination plastered on her face. This was one opportunity she didn't plan on wasting.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon, nor do I own any of its characters.
A/N: This is my first story, so I'll apologize in advance for not being that great of an author. Reviews of any kind are incredibly helpful. Criticisms, compliments, critiques, and suggestions of any kind will help a lot. Thanks for taking the time to read this! I'll try to have an update up by next Sunday!