Alright, I wasn't expecting so many reviews in such short time, but since you did, here's the next chapter!

I don't own Pokemon. I think I left that out of the first chapter, didn't I?


"Hey Lee, does this remind you of anything? Like a movie or something?" Dawn asked as the two of them boarded the ferry that would take them to their new school.

"Like...?" Leona asked, looking at her friend with confusion.

"Like the Parry Hotter movies! I loved them when they came out! Winged Rapidash, He-Whose-Name-Cannot-Be-Spoken terrorizing the regular trainers... There were times when I thought that it was real. There were times when I wished it was real."

"Oh yeah, you did love the Parry Hotter series a lot. I didn't see how you got so into them, but they were well written in the least."

"Well, you are just so practical. I love fantasy novels. You're too unimaginative."

"You take that back, Dee-Dee!"

"DON'T CALL ME DEE-DEE!"

"Have you seen Barry or Kenny around?"

"No, why?"

"Nothing, I was just wondering."

"Hey Dee-Dee and Leona!" Two males voices called, and two sets of footsteps could be heard running across the ferry's deck.

Dawn didn't need to turn and look to know who it was. She knew those voices as well as she knew her mother's, or Leona's voice. Kenny and Barry had found them, so Leona had no need to search the ferry for them. It was the only ferry leaving Sandgem Town, so there was a small deadline for boarding the ferry. The only other ferries left from Canalave City, Snowpoint City and Sunyshore City.

"We saved a table, come on come on come on!"

"Alright Barry, we're coming." Leona said, waving her hand in an attempt to both shush and calm the hyperactive, eager blond trainer.

"So Dee-Dee, looking forward to High School?"

"Kenny, let me put this politely. DON'T CALL ME DEE-DEE!"

"Come on! Let's go! Hurry up!"

"Calm down Barry. We'll get there when we get there." Leona told the blond boy.

Finally, after much arguing between Barry, who wanted to hurry up, and Leona, who didn't, they eventually reached the table which had been reserved for them. Leona and Kenny slid into one side of the booth, while Barry and Dawn slid in the other side.

A waitress came only moments later to give the group four milkshakes. Dawn figured that Barry had probably gone ahead and ordered for them, seeing as he was always in a rush. Always. A mechanic bell sounded, and Dawn stopped drinking her milkshake.

"Hello Passengers! Thank you for boarding the Goddess Oba. We will be departing from Sandgem in five minutes. Please take your seats, and thanks for traveling with the Goddess Oba."

The voice over the P.A. System was female and sounded like it belonged to a young woman of about 20 years' age. Dawn imagined that if Brock were here, then he would have hunted down the girl just to flirt with her if she were as attractive and as young as her P.A. Voice sounded. She felt like giggling at the thought.

"So, it's kind of weird only having Empoleon with me." Barry commented.

The letter from the High School which they were to attend, had detailed everything they were required to bring, and everything that they were required to leave behind. A page-long list of clothes and various school supplies were on the list of 'to bring', while the list of 'to leave' was nearly three pages long. The list detailed that all students were required to have their starter Pokemon with them, while all other Pokemon were to be left at home.

Leona had one of her Swinub, and Barry had his Empoleon. Kenny's Prinplup had evolved into Empoleon, so Kenny was also accompanied by an Empoleon. Dawn had her Piplup with her.

"Don't you think this whole thing is like something from a fantasy novel? Like the Parry Hotter novel series?" Dawn asked, looking at Barry and Kenny.

"How so?"

"Well, we're going to a boarding school for people of a certain age. We were invited by a letter that was accompanied by a 'to bring' list. And we're allowed to bring one Pokemon with us. In the novels it was just the choice of a Hoothoot, Skitty, Rattatta or Croagunk, or a Pokemon in their evolutionary lines, but here we're instructed to bring our starters. It's very similar!"

"I suppose so, Dee-Dee."

"It's bad enough with Lee and Kenny calling me Dee-Dee, but now you're going to start calling me that too? I'll go sit elsewhere." Dawn snapped, standing up and trying to get out of the Booth. She either had to duck under the table and crawl out, or slide across Barry's lap, since Barry clearly had no intention of getting up to let her out.

She didn't feel like maneuvering herself out of the seat and under the table, to clamber around the table's legs, as well as her friend's legs. Just one glance at the size of the table told her that it was tight quarters under the table, and one look under the table confirmed her theory. And so, she moved slid along the booth seat and stood up, trying to get out of the booth over Barry's lap.

"Where do you think you're going, Dee-Dee?" Barry asked, pulling her off his lap and pushing her back into the seat beside him.

"Fine then, keep me imprisoned here, Bee-Bee." Dawn responded, crossing her arms and pouting.

"Now that's going too far." Barry replied, shaking his head.

"You call me Dee-Dee, I call you Bee-Bee, got it?"

"Nice!" Kenny said, laughing.

"I thought so too, Kay-Kay." Dawn's new nickname for her old friend stopped him laughing immediately. However, that set both Barry and Leona to laughing.

"You needn't laugh at that, Bee-Bee and Lee-Lee."

"So we have your permission to call you Dee-Dee then, if we're willing to suffer your consequences?" Kenny asked, raising an eyebrow at Dawn.


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