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Special thanks to:

My sister for discouraging my creation of this story. She thought that "The Truth Revealed" was plenty of fan fiction for a lifetime. The reason why I thank her is because I enjoy doing the opposite of what she wants, which is the perfect motivation. Also, I attempted publishing this story a month earlier, but it wasn't exactly a hit. I was being an idiot thinking that I should give up because of a lack of reviews. I'm sure that there are casual readers out there who just want to read but don't care to leave a comment. I want to grace the silent ones with the return of this story. A chapter will be released weekly.


Chapter One

We watched the fire burn our school to the ground. Amazingly, not many were particularly happy about it; school was an enjoyable experience for a lot of people. The fire department consisting of floatzels were shooing the thunderstruck students off the campus. My little sister didn't follow me through the forest; she had her own friends to attend to. My trail back home was much faster than hers.

Minutes later, I stumbled through the door, completely out of breath. My parents were waiting there expectantly.

"I could sense you coming from a mile away," my mother said.

"I know," I said, hating the fact that she had to rub it in every single time I came home. "You don't have to tell me every single time."

My dad laughed. "And she can literally read your mind. At least she doesn't rub that in."

I faked a groan.

"Where's Addisen?" Dad asked.

"With her friends, no doubt," my espeon mom said, her pupils barely visible through the intense light surrounding them. Addisen the sylveon was the stereotypical popular girl at school, even though there weren't many who could call themselves that. I honestly didn't understand those gender-oriented stereotypes at all. How many guys actually talk in slang and have action figures? How about video games? Well, the video game one could be accurate for both genders. Everything else was debatable.

"Right again, honey."

"I was just watching something burn," I said, leaving the questions of "what?" and "why?" for them to figure out.

"Huh?" Dad asked.

"Kay, I'm leaving now," I said as I closed the door to my room. The boxes were already packed for the move.

How convenient. The school burns down only a few days before we're out of here.

I sat down on my bed and pulled out my cell. No messages. As usual. The only times I've ever gotten a message was when my mom or dad needed to know something or calling to tell me that I had forgotten my lunch at home.

Just wipe the tears away you lonely child.

A knock at the door.

"Come in."

My dad - a flareon - stepped through. "What an interesting turn of events. So, your school burned down. Your mother just told me."

I hoped that he didn't see my eyes roll. She always knew what was going on the moment things like this happened. Meanwhile, he was clueless until she graced him with the information. Maybe that's why he married her in the first place.

"Yeah, and at a convenient time too. If only it burned while school was still in."

"Don't say that," Dad said. "We have to pay a couple of taxes for your teachers, not mentioning how much the school costed the entire community to build."

Whatever.

"Okay. We still leaving at seven?"

"As planned," he replied.

I heard the sound of the front door of our house opening. Addisen was back. I heard her put down her school bags along with the clang of her car keys dropping.

"Where's Nobel at?"

"Upstairs with your dad. You going to talk to him again?"

"Maybe. If he bothers to come down."

"Well, better go check on the food."

I walked back down from my room to the main floor. "So, what did your friends have to say this time?"

She looked up to see me on the foot of the stairs, arms folded.

"Oh, Rose got a new boyfriend, and I failed my last earth science test, as usual," she said, knowing that I was fuming inside. She walked away without further comment. I had to be honest with myself. I didn't enjoy being with my family all that much. At least she had summer school to keep her away from me.

I walked out of the atrium and into our massive dining room, one of the two of which we had in our house. We lived in the rich neighborhood, with mini mansions lining the twisting street. I never used it to get to the school though. My 2 acre backyard was a long lawn lined with trees. It was safe for me to say that it was a massive forest. My shortcut ran through it with some little spots off to the side with a large amount of leaves covering them. Those were the remains of my clubhouses when I was younger. Back when my older sister still cared about my welfare. Not that she was rude to me or anything. At least my parents bothered to answer my questions.

"Son?"

I must've been standing still for a while. I turned back around. Dad was holding out a tray with his jaw. Oh Arceus. Evolution stones. For a minute, Dad waited patiently for me to get my voice back.

"Y-you serious?"

"You're going to high school next year. You are now old enough to choose what form you'll assume for the rest of your life. Be very careful which eeveelution you will pick."

"Thank you."

"These stones were passed down to me from my dad. Also, remember to take your future careers into account. They're yours now."

With that, he set the glass case on the floor and took off for his office where the money was generated.

Wow. He's given me almost every stone. An excadrill would be lucky to find more than ten of these in a single lifetime.

I snatched up the case and bolted to my room to contemplate my decision. I set it on my desk, then climbed up to get a closer look at each gleaming stone. They were arranged in rows with captions below each one. There was a green emerald piece with some text describing the form that I would take. Jolteon.

Addisen didn't knock. Less than a second later, she was at my side, panting like she had sprinted the three flights of our home.

"Pick...SYLVEON!" she gasped. "It'll be fun to see you that way!"

"Heck no!" I shouted. She started laughing when she saw how passionate I was about that eeveelution stage. I'd even heard some stories when guys accidentally mistaken male sylveons as females. The outcomes were often moonblasts to the face.

"Get out of my room, or I'll call Dad."

"I picked my stone ten seconds after he gave me the tray!" she shouted on the way down the stairs.

At last, I was alone, and clueless as to what I was going to choose. I turned on my reading lamp. The misty stone was gone, as was the fire stone and the dazzling stone. I already knew which eeveelution was my favorite, but that didn't mean that I was going to choose umbreon.

I decided to sleep on it.


"Get up, Nobel!"

Uhhh. Go away.

"Go away." I groaned.

"We're moving! The machokes are already outside."

I shot up faster than Addisen could hunt boys down. Doing that resulted in my head hitting the lamp that was leaning over my head. It thudded on the soft carpet as I bolted down the stairs 3 at a time. I passed a machoke holding my mom's special dishes.

Don't drop them, or you're d-e-d dead.

I ran to the massive front yard of the mansion, where the moving truck was almost filled to the point of collapse. The summer's heat was always painful even though I had my fur and mane shaved down to less than half of an inch. And the hot pavement could easily pass through the fur and into my paws. I tap-danced down to where my dad was, giving orders to the movers.

"And we'll be off once we get our refrigerater in my pickup," he said.

"When will we be leaving?" I asked him, feeling like a five year old and still dancing.

"Are you packed?" He asked me, like a typical parent.

I sighed heavily. "Okay, point taken. But I need help moving my desk and bookshelf," I said, and didn't wait for confirmation. I marched back to my room. There were machoke already moving them out.

"STOP!" I shouted. I had forgotten to take the tray off my desk. The muscular pokemon halted and gently set the desk on the floor.

"In case if you're wondering, we've already packed the stones and the lamp in the box over there," the closest one said.

"Thanks," I said, and ran over to it. I grabbed the packing tape in the corner of the room, and had one of the smaller machokes to strap the box to my back. Addisen moseyed in, humming the Starly Wars theme.

"You ready?" she asked. I nodded.

"Kids!" Mother yelled from three flights down. "Ready to go?"

"Yeah!" we shouted back.

I hadn't noticed the 20 dollar bill slide off of the cardboard box on my back, until the machoke behind me poked me in the head. I turned back.

"Umm, this fell off the box. Here." He held it out to me. I shook my head.

"You can keep it. Consider it my tip." Then I followed Addi out the door. As I walked down the long hall with the bedrooms branching off, I overheard the pokemon behind me mutter, "Filthy rich kids. Amazed that they aren't like those other brats that we helped move yesterday."

"Yeah," another one said. "Remember how that one pokemon threatened to fire blast us if we didn't pick up the pace?"

I continued walking, now occupied by some new thoughts.

Were most rich people like that? Because Addisen sure fit that category.

I walked out to the transport van to where Mom was waiting. "Let's go."


I'm planning on making the chapters this length or longer from now on. This also goes for my "The Truth Revealed" story. Also, Arceus has been through so much usage, so he won't be in this story. Sawss, if you feel like you want to remove this story, go ahead and tell me. I'm only using your fanfiction format (pokemon going to school in a modern day) because it's so fun to use and it's truly genius. Also, tell me if I have any misinformation present in the first chapter so I may fix it. Also, the title of this story has a high chance of changing. Out.

P.S. JayJarvis (my little 13-year-old sister) wrote a paragraph to contribute to this chapter. Can you guess where?


The premise used to be at the top of the page, but I decided to put it down here for your convenience.

Premise

(you don't have to read them, because they're just credits)

Before I start, I would like to announce a few advancements in my other story: "The Truth Revealed". It is currently on hiatus, so that means that I'll return to it eventually. Expect chapter 30 near the beginning of July, 2017. I've just been so busy storyboarding and other things...which is none of your business.

Now, onto the story, which is a fanfic based loosely on the "That" fanfic. No, you don't have to read it to understand this. That is, this will take place in the same universe, because I am a nerd with no imagination. (Note that I will immediately take this story down if awesomesawss wishes. Because he could very well call this a copyright infringement) Unfortunately, some people enjoy doing things that they aren't even good at.

But don't worry, I'll get good at it, because practice is a magical thing. Get ready to follow an espeon and a sylveon through their move to Talonflame Heights, a rich community just beginning from its roots. That's all I'm going to say for now. Also, they will go to a new school called "Latias High," which takes place about 20-ish years before Julley becomes a freshman. And I thought that the time of Julley was the good ol' days. I even considered making my main character here an umbreon.

But, Eclipse has already filled that role so… Yeah. Anyways, I hope that you'll enjoy it as much as I will. JayJarvis won't be editing this. If you haven't figured it out by now, JayJarvis is my sister. WOW. Even our pen names are similar. Okay, enough tangents. Here it is…

UPDATE: TALONFLAME HEIGHTS IS NO LONGER BEING USED. Nobel may visit the rich neighborhood, however. One day.

-PatrioticSwellow