A crimson-haired woman stares down her opponent, who charges once more. The woman sidesteps to her left in a flash of her bronze armor; she follows the doge with a well-timed bash from the shield covering her left forearm. In submission, the opponent, a busty girl with vibrantly yellow hair, listens to a voice announce: "Pyrrha Nikos wins! Yang, you should mind your balance when you charge like that." As Yang rises to her feet the voice continues, "well, that's all for today, you should return to your rooms for showers and a quick respite." Pyrrha responds with a "thanks, Professor Goodwitch!" as she leaves the colosseum of a classroom.
Walking down a door-filled hallway, Pyrrha spots a blonde boy walking with a short pink-haired girl and a quiet emerald robed man. Pyrrha greeted them with, "Jaune! Nora! Ren! I finally caught up to you." Nora responded with, "I'm just excited because Jaune mentioned that he'd make waffles for everyone!" After a nervous chuckle, Jaune lead the others to their room. As Pyrrha entered, a massive blue blur tackles the spartan armed woman, a human formed dog sucker punches Jaune, a small child leaps into Nora's arms, and a levitating ball of gases drifts toward Ren.
"Garchomp! I know you always get bored when I'm in most of my classes, but could you get off?" Coughed Pyrrha as she struggled to free herself of the massive land shark's grasp. As Garchomp rose, Pyrrha then stepped into the hall, where she tossed her discus shaped shield, Akouo, for her companion to fetch. Jaune, recovering from his companion's greeting, stumbled over to his waffle iron. "Lucario, could you not suprise me like that every time?.. Ren, can you pass over the batter?" "Or Jaune," begins Nora, "you could just toughen up, even Mawile here is scarier than you when she's trying to be adorable. And these Waffles of yours better live up to the hype." With a shrug, Ren passes a white substance to Jaune. Smoke begins to fill the room, so Ren sighs, "Weezing?.. You know its ok for you to let loose outside, we're not worried that you'll go out and destroy everything like Garchomp will."
After a couple minutes of Pyrrha playing fetch, Jaune announces that the waffles are finished. Pyrrha then apologizes to Garchomp, telling it that she has to eat, then go to her next class, Pokemon lab. Nora inhales her waffles first, commenting that the met expectations. Finishing last, Jaune announces that they should prepare for the next class, with the most excited responses coming from the companions.
Standing in the center or a hexagonal room, a middle-aged man with light brown hair wearing a worn, white lab-coat surveys his students from a central platform. However, accompanying these students are a variety of fascinating creatures, from a proud grey and white bird to Jaune's Lucario. To accommodate all the extra bodies, the room takes more space than even the colosseum classroom where Pyrrha had earlier dueled Yang. To further clutter the room, several cages stand evenly spread out throughout the lecture hall, each one randomly shaking. The lab-coat wearer steps into the center of hexagon, and sighs as he begins a lecture.
"Now, I hope all of you are familiar with how aura works with regards to humans and grim. Today, I hope to expand your knowledge for it to include how aura and Pokemon are connected. I think most of you have encountered a Pokemon that wasn't bonded with a human yet, did you notice that they lacked an aura? Like creatures of grimm, Pokemon at least start without an aura. However, in bonding with humans, Pokemon kinda latch on to the aura of the chosen Human. This allows Human and Pokemon to share perhaps the closest bonds known. When your Pokemon is hurt, you feel its pain; when you're filled with joy, so if your Pokemon; and whenever you fight, you know exactly what the other is about to do… Now, I want each team to break off around a cage; you'll find a beowulf for each team there. Each team will have one or two of their Pokemon fight the grimm, and I want the companion of the fighting Pokemon to focus on what I was talking about earlier. You should be able to anticipate your Pokemon's every move. And don't worry miss Nikos, this room was built with a Garchomp in mind."
With that final remark, Pyrrha's land shark blinked to the nearest cage, heavily breathing in anticipation. Pyrrha simply shook her head at her companion's eagerness, and followed after it. When the whole of team JNPR grouped around the cage, and Nora opened with, "well… I guess Garchomp gets to beat up on it."
"Professor Maple, when should we start?" continued Nora, now becoming nervous from the land shark's anticipation. The teacher flipped a switch on his podium as he announced, "Well… Looks like everyone's ready, so go ahead." At that instant Pyrrha focused on her Garchomp, looking to see how well should could anticipate her companion's actions. The cage sprung open. Suddenly, an image of the beowulf's neck and torso flashed in Pyrrha's mind as her garchomp crouched. Her Pokemon then bolted through the grimm, leaving nothing save a pile of black smoke.