I look around the new building. New smells, strange pokemon, nothing familiar but myself. Everyone seemed to know eachother from pervious years in the same forest. I had no care for the forest i had come from and the forest before that. I was going to all my classes today. ^I'll make friends there^ I thought.
I enter my first class called "home room". One pokemon walked up to me...maybe a Meowth? I've only heard of them...
"Hello, I'm Ashley. What's your name?" she asked in a happy voice.
"Katie." I smiled at her. Why was she so nice to me? She had just met me.
"You don't seem to know anyone too well..." she mentioned.
"I came from the Okazakii Forest last year." I kept smiling. Her happiness must be speading.
A grand ring came to my ear drums. She glided off to her first class of four. I could tell she was about to evolve. I went out the door and went with the crowd of pokemon heading toward to the end of the school. I saw room 1012, pokemon evolutionary paths. I slinked into the room and looked at the desks. They were in the common arrangment of rows and columns. Little slips of paper, one on each desk, had names and speices on them. I looked for mine. My name was on a desk close to the front. ^Great^. I looked at the teacher's desk almost directly infront of me. He was the scariest looking alakazam I had ever seen, levitating more than twenty books. He looked up at me. All the books fell to the floor and he stared for a minute. I looked away. ^How weird^. Other pokemon stared to enter talking and laughing amoungst one another. Shinx, sunflora, starly, wurmple, Jiglypuff,stantler, ekans, totodile, chimchar, snivy, and drantini all entered the room, one by one. They looked for they're names, and eventually sat down.
"Alright, now that we are all here, let's take roll..." I tune out and go off in a different direction.
Before I know it, the next bell rings. I head to the other end, heading there as fast as I can. Room 127: skills development.
As I entered the room, I saw a blue figure with ribbons dancing around its purple hair, walking on all four feet.
"Hello, there.I'm your new teacher, Ms. Lock."
"What pokemon are you?" I questioned the strange creature.
"I am what you call a suicune" She smiled.
"I've never seen a pokemon like you before." I stood in awe of her.
"It's ok." She began to set out circular glasses out on her desk. "This is a TM." She explained.
I picked one up labeled "shadow ball" and thoughts started to rush to my head. It showed me making a purple sphere to attack opponents with. The circle snapped in half. The teacher looked at me. She smiled and went back to work. I sat in the desk I had taken the TM off of. I could feeling myself getting redder. ^I'm such a clutz...damn these big paws of mine.^ Other pokemon entered the scene. They all stared at my reddened face under my red-brown fur.
"Hello, students. I am Miss Lock, your skills devolpment teacher. Pick any seat with a TM you can learn. And don't try to fake it. I'll know."
"What an asshole." I heard a low, gravaly voice behind me.
"I know, but I'd tap that shit any day," said a smoother tone.
I turned to face them. "You keep your fucking mouths shut."
"And what are you gonna do if we don't, you stupid chick?" The gravaly voice spoke. I noticed it was a geodude.
"I'll kick your ass." I hopped out of my chair. My fur stood on end.
"Dude, you wanna look like a pussy?" A rattata, the smoother voice, whispered to him. He went to his seat.
The geodude grumbled and got in his. I sighed with relief and slid into my desk. The teacher went on about all the moves a suicine could learn from TMs. The bell rang and I began to walk out. An absol caught me by one of my tails with his mouth. He let go and spoke to me as I whipped around.
"You got some gut, little miss." He grinned at me. I half-smiled back at him. "See you in class tomorrow." He pranced off. ^I though absols were an inch or to larger.^ I shrugged it off.
I slumped to my next class of battle training. I never was a good fighter. Thankfully, the geodude wasn't there but the absol I had met stood next to a roselia, conversing about something I could care less about. He pranced over.
"Hey, you. Nice to see you again. Come with me." He began to pick me up by the scruff and carry me over.
"Blade, no inappopriate touching in class," a poliwrath yelled. The absol set me down gently.
"Sorry, coach," he called. Apparently, Blade was his name. We were already sitting next to the grass pokemon.
"Blade, is this your girl? Man, cause she's too cute for you." He winked at me. I glared at him.
"Darrel, this is that chick."
"Dude, you gotta be joking." He slid up next to me. "By the way, you doing anything tonight?" He raised his eyebrows in his hopes that I wasn't.
"Ya, I do." I punched him in the arm.
"Aw, man. That hurt." He rubbed his arm with his rose for a paw
"I'm sorry. I won't do it again." I smiled sweetly and slugged him again.
He laughed. "You're alright, girl."
"Say," Blade remarked, "we don't know your name. What is it?"
Just then the bell rang. The poliwrath spoke again.
"I am your coach for this year and don't you forget it. You "cadettes" will call me Coach and nothing more. Are we clear?" he raised his voice.
Mumbles came from the small pokemon before him.
"Are we CLEAR?" he raised his voice at us.
"Crystal, sir," Blade piped up. Other pokemon followed his example. Coach blinked in appreciation at him. Blade nodded.
"You can talk until the bell rings." Coach waddled awkwardly into his office. This would be an interesting class. I noticed a small pokemon out of the corner of my eye creeping towards us. I whipped around and saw it was a metapod. It stood still as I watched it.
"Hey," I called. The bug quivered in fear. "Come here." He inched closer to us until he was part of our circle.
The other two guys looked at each other, puzzled why I called him over.
"What's your name, hun?" I asked him in a sweet voice.
"H-H-Henry." His voice shook as he recited it. "What's your n-name?"
"I'm Katie." I smiled at him. He slowly smiled back at me.
"So that's your name," the roselia said as he put his blue rose on my shoulder. I moved so he couldn't reach. Blade laughed as his friend fell to the floor.
"Dumbass..." Blade tackled his friend as me and Henry watched at laughed as the two tumbled around on the floor.
Before I knew it, the period was over, and I was heading to the last class of the day, Famous Pokemon. I had always hated this subject: a subject of dead or old pokemon. How stupid. I entered the class, and there was the teacher. The fire on its tail and the wings on its back told me the creature was a charizard, yet its soft eyes told me of its kindness. Older pokemon had told me charizards were vicious. I guess they were wrong.
"Hello, there. You're an intresting little critter aren't you?" The voice indicated the fiminity of her. "My, how many tails you have." She smirked at me. "What's your name, dear?"
"Katie." I bowed in respect.
"Please, take a seat. I'm your new teacher, Mrs. Lox." She sat at her desk as other students walked in and took random seats, chatting until the bell rang. I stared at the board as the class went on. In the middle of her lecture, she caught my attention with a prophocey.
"Legend has it," she began, "that two fire pokemon, bearing many the flames of love, will enter the cavern and face many challenges. When, and if, they conquer these tasks, they may have the power even humans wish to posses. The power is so great, it can destroy or save the world." The bell rang louder in my ears. "Well, it's time for everyone to go home. Goodbye." She smiled and waved us all out.
I exited the school without encountering anyone I had met earlier. I walked myself home in silence, yet I felt like I was being watched from behind. I entered my house, but before I even closed the door, a bottle smashed next to the entrance. I looked at the arcanine in front of me.
"KATIE!" He hugged me with his over sized body compared to mine. "I love you, baby girl." His fur engulfed me as he spoke.
"Dad, go to bed, please?" I gently pushed him off.
"Nahhh, I'mma stay up awwllll night." He swayed as he stepped from two paws to the others.
I sulked to my bed room I had made out of sticks myself. I froze as I saw a shadow in the corner of my room.
"Who's there?" I accused the corner of being a pokemon. I approached as the purple ball appeared in my head. I felt a powerful ball form in my mouth.
"It's only me, Katie. Calm down." The ball shrank as I reconized the white fur along with the black blade on the shadows head.
"Blade?"
"Yeah, I felt something bad was going to happen, so I followed you home." He smiled as he looked deep into my eyes. I let him see my soul. "Are you ok?"
"My dad is drunk again is all..." I laid on my bed. "It's been a long day. Can I...?"
"Oh, yeah sure." I curled up. He came up and kissed me on the forehead. "Good night." He lept out my window and was gone.
I blushed and closed my eyes. Finally, the day was over.
