I'd never thought something could be so boring.

The teacher - some old fart with white hair and a bald patch - scribbled some writing on the board, lecturing us on how the human body works. Snow and Raven sat next to me, whispering to eachother, holding hands. I'd worked out that they were dating, then again it didn't take a genius to work that out, but I was suprised by it. Frosty sat on her shoulder, nuzzling Raven's head occasionally - on Raven's desk sat a Hitmontop who looked just as bored as me. I'd found out pretty quickly that everyone had a pokemon following them that didn't live inside of a pokeball - most people had cute pokemon, like the girl sitting infront of me with a Pikachu perched ontop of her head. I'd also learn't that Jess was too big for this job which highly pissed me off. She was quite happy standing next to me watching the teacher, but apparently she makes people nervous. Whatever. I don't have a pokemon that qualifies for that job, except prehaps Alistor, but I doubt people would like him with me. He'd cause more trouble than Jess.

The teacher turned to me, talking. "So inside the kidney's there are these things called...what, Rose?" I blinked, realising he was talking to me.

"Nephrons, Sir." I replied, hoping that he hadn't seen my eyes turn purple. He nodded, and carried on explaining. I let my mind drift, till I could reach out and talk to Jess.

You didn't have to help me there Jess, I could have answered that myself. I said through our psychic bond. I heard her gurgling laugh inside of my head.

Like hell. You weren't paying attention. Just don't let him see your eyes while your talking to me, or he'll send you to the nurse. By the way, what are you going to do about the pokemon trouble?

Her question stunned me. I could tell she was upset about not being able to hang around with me. I knew she expected me to chose Alistor, but even he was a bit big...

I don't know yet. It'll take a while. Maybe I'll switch out Aero for a bit and chose one. This seemed to satisfy her, so I carried on drawing a rose in my notepad.

Desert Rose. My name sake, thanks to Jess and me. We were an unstopable team when we start...maybe I should take out another ground pokemon or something. I left my mind drift again. What would work? Who do I have that fits the bill... Slash would do the trick but he's pretty weak compared to my usual partners... The teacher broke my trail of thought, standing infront of me. The girl with a pikachu sitting ontop of her brown curly hair turned to me, a slightly angry look on her face. The girl sitting next to her turned to me, silver eyes staring into mine. I froze, confused.

It was then that I heard the scratching noise, and slightly annoyed squeaks coming from Jess. I turned slowly to see her with my notepad and a pen, attempting to write while holding the pen at a stupid angle. I burst out laughing, even though the rest of the class didn't find it amusing. Once I'd finally managed to stop laughing, a girl in the front row stood up. Platinum blonde hair fell down to her shoulders, and piercing silver eyes stared into mine. I froze.

"Control your Pokemon, or get out." She growled to me. I smiled, feeling a little more relaxed.

"Oh come on, just because Jess shows more interest in learning than me." My smile widened as a few of the other people in my class began to giggle, including Raven and Snow. The girl's face darkened in annoyance. She turned around, clicking her fingers. A lopunny jumped onto the desk, doing a little spin and then stretching out.

"Think your so big, girl?" She asked, leaning against the table. The lopunny sat next to her, legs hanging off the edge of the desk. "Want to have a fight? If I win, you have to leave all of my classes, and release that monster," she pointed to Jess, who instantly growled back, "if I lose, I'll leave you alone, you can stay in biology, and make sure that the teachers let you keep her out. Is that a deal?" A cocky smile spread across her face.

For a moment I considered declining. My first day had already been exciting enough. In the end, I didn't have a choice. I felt Jess attempting to get into my head, and before I knew it she was in control.

"Of course it's a deal. Bring it on, you stupid blonde bitch!" Jess spoke through me, my eyes glowing purple. A few people jumped, nervous chatter spreading quickly. I growled, trying to gain control of myself, shaking my head angrily. Jess finally backed out, giving me control again.

"S-Sorry. Yeah, I'll fight you..." Everyone was looking at me as if I had two heads. To be honest, I felt like it. Being pushed out of your own body by a pokemon is never the nicest of experiences, but today it was even worse. Mostly because people I don't know are watching.

The whole class started to run outside, to the open ground infront of the school where I'd stopped Mags killing Roamer earlier - much to the teacher's disapproval. I made Jess get into her pokeball - I was not having her doing that again! - and walked onto the battlefield, thinking. The class had circled the fighting area, and the girl who'd challenged me stood the other side of the field. Raven had taken centre stage, as the judge.

"This will be a one on one pokemon battle. The prize on this fight has already been agreed by the trainers. Rose and Platinum, chose your pokemon!" Raven called out. Everyone stopped talking, and watched me and the girl - I guess her name must be Platinum - with big eyes. I didn't even think. Jess was on the line here, and there was only one pokemon I trust with my life...

"Go, Beauty!" Platinum called, sending out her Lopunny. I smiled to myself, watching the creature show off, dancing around happily.

"Go, Alistor.." I whispered, unclipping the pokeball around my neck, maximising it and releasing the creature inside. A Gallade appeared infront of me, it's ruby eyes staring into mine, before turning to the Lopunny. Everyone went quiet.

Alistor isn't special - I mean, he isn't a shiny pokemon, but he glows with the amount of psychic power trapped inside of his body. It was because of him that I gained my psychic connection with my pokemon, because of him that all of my pokemon could (literally) walk in my body - feel my emotions, control my movements. Yet it was with him that I felt the connection the most.

Its almost like being in two bodies at once.

Raven coughed, then shouted; "Let the battle begin!" The crowd stayed quiet, watching the two pokemon who were carefully watching eachother.

"Beauty, fire punch!" The Lopunny sprang forward, heading straight towards Alistor. His eyes glowed the same purple as mine as he watched the creature heading towards him. Lost in the bond, I raised my hand out in a command. Alistor growled, understanding my command. His arm blades began to glow neon pink, his eyes glowing the same colour too. The lopunny jumped, her fist glowing red with flames dancing along her fur, aiming to end the match as quickly as it started by hitting Alistor's head. Her attempt failed epically.

As her fist came down, Alistor quickly slashed upwards with his glowing armblade - a Psyco cut. The force of the move knocked her backwards, to the floor. Alistor instantly ran forward, moving in a flurry of punches against Beauty while she was down - Close Combat.

I became caught up with Alistor - I could feel every move he made, the power the flowed through his body, the smaller details - the sun beating down on his skin, the feel of the concrete beneith his feet, the sounds of the crowd's shock at how quickly this match was moving, the sudden beat of wings from behind him...

I was broken away from Alistor quickly by someone shaking my shoulder. Crashing back to my own body was hard - I stumbled backward, falliing against the person shaking me. Who ever it was grabbed me, holding me up.

"Rose, call him off! Now!" I couldn't recognise the voice, I still wasn't completly back - which in a way, helped. Alistor heard the command and instantly stopped fighting. The Lopunny wasn't in the best condition, but then again it wasn't damaged enough to be a knock out. It would be fine in a few minutes. Platinum ran towards it, shouting at Alistor..

Then I was completly in my own body. I could see Alistor running towards me, his ruby eyes filled with concern. I looked up, and saw Drake looking down at me. Behind him (I could just see over his shoulder) was a Salamance. Both of their faces were filled with concern, too.

"What on earth was going on there? You just froze and your eyes..." He didn't finish his sentence. Alistor finally got to me, taking me from his arms and holding me up, inspecting me carefully.

Sorry. His voice was short, as if he was tired from the run. I lost control there. Didn't mean it. I smiled to myself, managing to stand up myself without his help. He looked at me, and I just laughed.

"Its alright Hun...I'm just glad your ok. Beauty will be fine.." I whispered to him, touching his face gently. The pokemon smiled happily, before turning to Drake. He spoke allowed, using his psychic powers to contact everyone.

"I'm sorry about that. It wasn't on perpose. Rose shares a special connection with her pokemon, more so with me than any other. She becomes lost in it sometimes. However, Beauty will be fine, don't worry..." Alistor was silenced by a screaming girl the other side of the field.

"You freaks! You could have badly hurt Beauty! I swear I'm going to-" Platinum screamed at us, only stopping when the brunette with a pikachu (still somehow) on her head began talking to her in a quiet voice. The pair talked for a while, until Platinum had finally calmed down. In a way, her being calm was worse. "Rose, I'm going to make your days here a living hell. I hope you enjoy it. Freak." She shouted over to me, before walking away, the crowd parting to let her through.

Drake laughed behind me. I turned to him, wondering what was happening.

"Jeeze, its your first day and already you make an enemy like her...I guess I'm staying by your side. This is too funny to miss." He carried on laughing. A few other members of our class began laughing too, before they disperesed, heading back to Biology. Raven and Snow looked over to me, before walking off hand in hand. I guess they weren't the sort of friends to stay by my side, then.

"How did you know what was going on?" I asked Drake, looking at him intently. Alistor stood by my side, watching Drake just as intently.

"Oh, well I was flying with Dragolia," at this he pointed to his Salamance, who chirped happily. "And we saw the fight, so we came down to watch. When I saw you frozen in position like that, well, I had to see what was going on then. Impressive bond you have there with your Gallade." He smiled wide, holding out his hand to Alistor. Ali shook it, smiling back. "I should really get back to class, and so should you. Your going to get into so much shit - I know its your first day, but really, skipping classes is a major offence here." He jumped onto Dragolia, mock saluting me as she sent out a small burst of flame. "I'll be your little guardian dragon - if you need any help, send an attack into the sky and I'll be there as soon as possible." He winked, and then took off without another word from me. I stared off, watching him fly away, thinking.

Alistor was the first to move. He took my hand with his, his arm blades now retracted. We began walking back to Biology, but as soon as we got near the school he pushed me into a corner, out of sight from anyone watching.

Its about time you released my from my ball for a bit. You don't realise how lonely it gets in there...He touched my face gently with one of his hands, keeping me pinned to the wall with his other hand. And you know how much I miss you when we're not out, together...

That was one thing about me and Ali. When we were in the desert..well, things got lonely. We ended up in a relationship once he evolved into Gallade - I refused to go near humans properly for around a year after that, too busy spending time with him as a boyfriend. We'd kissed, hugged - never slept together, but we were close enough to be considered weird by most humans. Yet that didn't stop our feelings for eachother - and they hadn't changed.

Our lips connected in a sweet kiss, my hand slowly running down his side. I felt his chest spike push against my chest as he got closer, deepening our kiss. I moaned into his mouth, feeling myself giving into the feeling of us being so close again...

Drake watched from above. His eyes narrowed as he saw her Gallade move closer, the pair obviously kissing. He hadn't expected her to be into that sort of thing, then again from what he knew, three years alone in the desert would be enough time for a relationship with anything. Yet he couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart, watching the pair. He really did like her, even if he didn't really know her.

"Saa?" Dragolia asked, looking up at her master. Drake smiled, patting her head.

"Its ok. She's just lonely, thats all. Wait till next lesson - I'm taking her to dragon taming then. We'll have our chance then.."

Okays, so this is chapter two. I'm sorry that theres so much happening in a small timescale, but I'm bad with timing things. I wanted to get Platinum involved as soon as possible anyway, since everyone has an enemy in school. By the way, I've done this chapter quicker than I usually will because of boredom O_O the others might take a little while longer...Thanks for reading for far! =P