Here's chapter 2! I just want to say, that Mimi is an orphan and she boarded at the school.

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon!

"Huh? Who's there?" a noise from the front door startled Professor Lotus and she awoke with a start. She was slumped over her desk. "Did I pull another all nighter?" She looked at the clock; it read 3:30 a.m. After double checking with her watch on her wrist, she concluded, it was 3:31 a.m. "No I didn't...but apparently someone thinks I don't have a life...". She walked towards the laboratory door and opened it. There stood a familiar face she had only seen hours before.

"Hi Professor Lotus!" Mimi smiled at the Professor.

"Mimi? What are you doing here so early in the morning?" Professor Lotus asked her.

"I came for my Pokémon duh!" Mimi grinned.

"What? This early in the morning?" Professor Lotus looked at her, she seemed eager and the professor couldn't help but give in. "Okay, c'mon over here."

The professor led Mimi through her lab. It was a messy lab. Paper, pokéballs, and data sheets littered the lab.

"Sorry about the mess, anyways, what are you doing here so early? Does the Chairman know about this?" the professor asked.

"Ugh, I uh…I'm not good with good-byes! So…I uh haven't told the chairman…" Mimi sighed. "You've been my teacher for two years now…how do you not know that?"

"Oh, I'm sorry," Professor Lotus said regrettably. Even though she taught at the academy, and even had Mimi as her student for the last two years, she never knew how to really keep a conversation with Mimi.

"Oh, no it's okay! I don't think the Chairman cares I'm gone! I mean…she basically raised me…so she should know I'd sneak out like this! I think she even left me a bunch of potions and pokeballs in my backpack!" Mimi said happily.

"Cynthia was right," Professor Lotus whispered quietly to herself. "She's got talent…it's like…emanating from her…she'll be a great Pokémon trainer one day…"

"Huh? Did you say something?" Mimi asked.

"Oh no, nothing!" she stuttered. The professor stopped in front of 30 pillows, each with a pokéball on top of it. "Here we are!"

"Whoa! Are all these for us?" Mimi said in awe.

"Yup, let's see…you're contestant number…16…this one is you-" the sound of a Pokémon being released from its pokéball interrupted them. "Huh?"

"Oh how cute!" Mimi exclaimed. "A Charmander!"

"What are you doing out of your pokéball?" Professor Lotus yelled. She walked towards the Pokémon, but it hid behind Mimi's legs.

"What a cutie!" Mimi said excited, "Hey, Professor, why is this Charmander gold?"

"Well…this Charmander is special. You see, there are many types of Pokémon, as you probably already know, and male and female Pokémon can have different forms. However, there are rare Pokémon that can be a different color than normal Pokémon. This Charmander is one of them," the Professor explained as she looked at the strangely colored Pokémon. It was her first time seeing a shiny Pokémon, and it was quite surprising. She then murmured, "Cynthia wanted to give her such a rare Pokémon?"

"Eh? Well I still think he's a cutie," Mimi said petting the reptile-like Pokémon. It snuggled against her leg.

"Hmm…well…then why don't you take him?" the professor asked.

"What? Take him?" she looked down at Charmander. It stared back at her with puppy dog-like eyes. "Yeah! Charmander and I can be a team! Then we'll beat that old hag!"

"Old hag? Oh…she must mean Cynthia …" Professor Lotus thought out loud, "So will you raise him?"

"Yeah! Me and Charmander are gonna totally kick butt!" Mimi said petting Charmander again. It continued to snuggle against her leg, as if it agreed to the plan.

"Alright then…are you going to rename him?"

"Um…well…hmm…hey Charmander, what do you think about being called Charmy?"

The little lizard Pokémon stared at her and gave her a nod. It continued to snuggle against her leg.

"Okay, then Charmy it is!" Mimi laughed petting her newfound friend.

"Here," Professor Lotus gave Mimi a Pokedex and five pokéballs, "These are for your journey, make sure to have fun okay?"

"Alright, c'mon Charmy let's go!" Mimi said snatching the items from Professor Lotus's hand.

"Oh, make sure to thank Cynthia for your Charmander, she is the one who gave him to you," she said.

"Alright then!" she ran out the door with Charmy following her closely.

"That kid's got spunk, hope she'll be okay…oh wait!" Professor Lotus looked towards the pillows and at pillow #16. "Dang it, I forgot to give her this Pokémon too…"

"Ellen wake up!" Ellen's mother called from downstairs. "Aren't you going to go to the professor's lab today?"

"Oh crud!" Ellen woke with a start. She looked over at the clock it read: 12:20 p.m. she then turned over to Maria. "Maria wake up!"

"What time is it?" Maria said groggily. The two had a slumber party; they wanted to travel together, so they decided they would get their Pokémon at the same time. "12:20, are you serious?"

"Yeah, c'mon! Let's go!" Ellen said putting on her clothes hurriedly.

"Ellen, here's your bag, I put a lot of stuff in here, and I can't believe your going to travel…we'll miss you. Don't forget to call home every once in awhile!" Ellen's mother had busted into the room with a little bag.

"Oh, here, Maria, make sure to call every once in awhile too, okay?" Maria's mother said at the foot of the stairs while handing her a pretty bag filled with her essentials as well.

"Yeah, don't worry about us! Bye mom!" Ellen and Maria yelled running down the stairs and out of the house.

"See you guys soon!"

"Wow can you believe it? Our first Pokémon! Wonder what we'll get!" Ellen said excitedly.

"Well, if we don't like what the prof. chose for us, we can still choose another Pokémon…" Maria said.

"Eh…I've never heard of someone refusing one of the professors previously chosen Pokémon," Ellen argued.

"Well, I'm just saying it could happen," Maria said in a smart-alecky way.

"Do you think Mimi left yet?" Ellen asked Maria.

"No, she wouldn't be able to wake up on time, besides her Pokémon probably sucks, she's better off catching one in the wild," Maria said with disgust.

"Hey! Don't smack talk Mimi!" Ellen yelled. "She's a nice person…what she did…was so long ago! Why can't you just forget about it?"

"Doesn't matter what she did to me, she's just stupid and incompetent!" Maria frowned. "And no, I can't!"

"Maria…" Ellen sighed as they walked up the stairs to Professor Lotus's laboratory.

"Professor, are you there?" Maria said talking into the com.

"Yes, I'll be there in a second!" lots of crashing could be heard on the other side of the com. The door creaked open and a messy, tired looking Professor Lotus stood in the doorstep.

"Hey professor, we're here to get our Pokémon!" Ellen smiled.

"Oh? You guys came a bit late. A lot of people already came and got theirs…c'mon, let's go get your starters," Professor Lotus led them towards the 30 pillows. "So you guys are going to travel together I presume?"

"Yup, I wanted Mimi to travel with us, but she never picked up her phone…" Ellen sighed. "And I tried to invite Mary and Hannah but they said they had already left when I called them."

"Mimi? She left already. Sometime around 4 this morning…" the professor yawned. "And Hannah and Mary left around 2 hours ago…"

"Four…as in four in the morning?" Maria exclaimed.

"Yes, she seemed to be so eager…" they had reached the 30 pillows. A majority of the pokéballs were gone now. "Let's see…contestants number 15 and 27…alright here you go! I think you'll be pleased at the Pokémon I selected for you."

The two young trainers let their new companions out of their pokéballs. Out of Ellen's sprung a small Mudkip. From Maria's pokéball emerged a Chikorita.

"Oh my goodness how cute!" the two girls hollered in unison. They both scooped up their Pokémon and hugged them.

"And these are for you," Professor Lotus handed them a Pokedex and 5 pokéballs each. "Before you go, could you bring this to Mimi?"

"Does that have a Pokémon in it?" Ellen asked looking at the pokéball Professor Lotus was holding out.

"Yes, I decided, it would be best if Mimi raised this Pokémon," the professor said handing the capsule to Ellen.

"Why is Mimi so special?" Maria asked.

"Well…she did beat Cynthia…and she seems to be like the kind of person this Pokémon would get along well with," the professor answered her. "Mimi called me about an hour ago, she says she's near Cortet Village, so you should be able to catch up to her."

"Okay," said Ellen.

"Ellen," the professor said pulling Ellen to the side and whispering into her ear. "I'm going to give you a very big job, do you think you can handle it?"

"Yeah, sure," Ellen said looking over at Maria who was playing with her Chikorita. "Look, if it's about me getting that pokéball to Mimi, you don't have to worry. I can do that! Maria might say she doesn't want to, but we'll still do it."

"No…it's not just that, since you two seem to be such good friends…I need you to watch over her."

"Who…Maria?" Ellen asked confused when she saw the professor look over her shoulder.

"No! Look out for Mimi alright?" the professor chuckled.

"Why? Is something wrong?" Ellen's tone changed from nonchalant to concern.

"It's nothing, I just want to make sure she doesn't do anything bad, you know how she gets…" the professor reminisced with a grin.

"Ohh…like that one time someone told her cut the hedges, and she ended up shaping them into dollar signs?"

"What? No! Wait…she did that?" Professor Lotus said shocked.

"Yeah….oh it was before you came to this school…but yeah…and then she planted Venus Fly Traps when she was told to redo the front garden…" Maria butted in when their conversation got too loud.

"Okay, yeah, that's why you guys gotta watch her," the professor said pushing the task onto Maria as well.

"No way! I'm out of trainer school, and I'm not putting up with her anymore!" Maria said bitterly.

"Don't worry Professor Lotus, I'll do that!" Ellen said as she and Maria got ready to leave the lab.

"Call me when you find her," the professor said to the two girls as they walked out the door.

"Wow, they were right!" Maria said once they got outside.

"About what?" Ellen asked confused.

"That Professor Lotus never disappoints when it comes to Pokémon selections!" Maria smiled. "Here I thought she was giving out Pidgeys or Spearows…but the Pokémon she gave to us were super rare!" Maria said fidgety.

"She's a Pokémon prof. she wouldn't give out common Pokémon to beginning trainers."

"Yeah, yeah whatever…" Maria mocked.

"C'mon let's go find Mimi!" Ellen suggested.

I love how much Maria hates Mimi! There is a back-story behind her animosity, and I'll add a side-story about that later on in the Fainfic. Thanks for reading! The next chapter is coming soon (I'm already working on it!).