Chaos: I'm back from the dead
Treecko: Well you took your time, didn't you
Chaos: Yeah, though in all seriousness, sorry for not updating in a while, just some stuff has happened and I have to deal with it, not much else to say. So enjoy
Cyndaquil: The author does not own Pokémon
As the buses were lined up by the pavement, lines of Pokémon had already gathered in a queue to get in the bus. In the first bus, near the back was a lone Flareon sitting by the window watching the Pokémon flood into the buses. No one dared to sit next to the aggressive Flareon in which, he was happy with. He was content with this however as he enjoyed the solitude.
He then placed his earphone in and tapped his music player. A single beat was played out to begin with but as time went on more and more instruments joins the lone beat before it started playing a slow but upbeat tune. Stephen started to slightly bob his head to the music, tapping his foot against the floor however his rhythmic movement had started to slow down. Minutes later, Stephen had succumbed to the music and drifted off into a deep slumber.
A trio of girls were rushing over to the buses hoping that they had not missed the bus. They ran up over to a simipour, panting and gasping for air. "Miss, we're not late are we" Mala said out of breath. The simipour shook her head. "No, you aren't late" The trio sighed in relief.
"I am so happy that we arrived on time" Mai said in relief. They all approached the bus at the end before the simipour spoke. "Sorry but we only have two spaces on that bus, there's a spare space in the first bus. So whoever sits where is up to you three".
The three turned to each other waiting for the other to speak until Mala stepped forward. "I'll go on my own".
"Ok then, over to the first bus then" The simipour pointed to the bus in the front. As Mala walked over to the bus the other two stopped her. "Are you sure, you don't mind being on your own" Kate asked.
Mai nodded in agreement "Yeah, I could swap with you if you want".
Mala shook her head. "Don't worry about it, you two. You just enjoy yourselves" She said to them and ran over to the bus. She walked around searching for the empty seat. As she approached the back of the bus, she spotted the empty seat. She sat on it with a sigh of content. She glanced over to the side to see who was next to her. She was shocked to see a dark red furred Pokémon with fluff around its neck. It had earphones on and was gently snoring away.
The Pokémon then turned his head trying to get comfortable when his eyes suddenly opened, his orange eyes locked on to her light blue eyes. They stared into each other's eye for a couple of minutes before Stephen's look turned into a frown as he took off his earphones. "And why are you sitting next to me?" He asked in a low voice.
Mala gave him a look of anger before answering back. "Hey, I'm just as upset as you are about this so don't go blaming me" Stephen gave her a look of slight confusion before she replied. "There were no more seats anywhere so I had to go on this bus. Turns out this was the only seat available" She rolled her eyes. "I wonder why" She said in a sarcastic voice.
Stephen gave her a look of annoyance and turned away. "I don't really care what you have to say about me, I'm going to listen to my music" he then put his earphones back in. "So if you don't mind, can you please not disturb me"
"H-hey then what am I…" Mala was about to ask before seeing Stephen's head bob up and down to his music. "Oh…Ok then just leave me to do my own thing then".
The machamp stood up at announced to the children on the bus. "Ok, is everybody's seatbelts on" to which everybody cried out "YES!".
"Ok then, also if anyone feels travelsick then you must report to either me or one of the other staff members. Also do not leave any rubbish on the floor when leaving the bus as the bus station was kind enough to lend us the three buses so it is our job to treat the buses with respect. This means no wrappers, no chewing gum, nothing left on the bus. Do I make myself clear?".
"Yes Sir!" The children yelled out.
"Good, we'll be on our way very soon. The journey will take around two hours, enjoy your trip" The machamp said before sitting back down.
Mala huffed to herself "Great, that means I have two hours to wait and not be able to do anything" All of a sudden another voice then came from behind her. "If you want you can talk with me" A soft but high pitched voice chirped out. Mala looked up to see an eevee above waving.
The eevee, who seemed to be a girl, was waving over to Mala and smiling. She had brown fur and light brown fluff around her neck and had a red ribbon on her head.
"So do you want to talk to me, I mean we both are bored" The eevee asked again "And also your boyfriend seems to be ignoring you".
Mala started to blush. "Excuse me" She cried out before regaining her composure. "We aren't a couple; I'll have you know".
The eevee hit herself in the head lightly. "Oh, I'm sorry about that" She apologised "I jump to conclusions quickly… but it did look like you were a couple though, a cute one at that".
Again Mala started to blush. "Well you thought wrong then".
"Heh sorry about that, anyways my name's Isabella but…you can call me Izzy" The Eevee introduced herself.
"Don't worry about it, and nice to meet you Izzy, I'm Mala" Mala returned.
"So who's the flareon next to you then?" Izzy pointed at Stephen who was still bobbing his head up and down to his music.
"Oh him, he's Stephen. Don't think we're friends though I just had to sit next to him since there was nowhere else to sit" Mala replied.
"Stephen, huh" Izzy started pondering. "Hey aren't you the guy who hangs around on his own doing absolutely nothing but occasionally try to find some way to escape school grounds" As if he was listening to the conversation the whole time, Stephen flicked his head over to Izzy giving her a really harsh glare. "Eep" She cried before ducking down underneath the chair only to rise back over peeking to see if Stephen was still glaring at her… then ducked back down again.
"Stop staring at me, it's freaky" She cried out from behind only to have the angry flareon reply back.
"If you don't stop talking about me, there is going to be a pile of ash on that seat there".
"Eep" Izzy cried out again.
"Look, can you not threaten poor Izzy please, she's just an eevee" Mala said giving Stephen a small glare. He muttered something inaudible before going back to his music".
Izzy popped her head back up again and sighed in relief. "Thanks, I thought he was going to roast me alive there" She thanked Mala.
"It's no problem, I wasn't going to let you get hurt" Mala returned.
"So why is he such a depressive Pokémon" Izzy asked giving Mala a puzzled look.
"Oh that, I think that's just because he is a miserable git" Mala replied.
"Yeah, you two definitely aren't a couple" Izzy laughed.
Mala laughed as well. "You got that right". Then Mala thought of something. "Hey, is there a spare seat next to you because it doesn't seem like anyone is there".
Izzy glanced to the side before turning back. "Yeah, my friend Jo is there. Just that she fell asleep when the bus started to get going so I got bored".
Mala's ears drooped for a moment. "Oh, I was hoping no one was next to you so I could move over to you".
"Sorry about that" Izzy replied before glancing back.
Mala turned around again to look through the window. She could see them passing a few forests on one side and a couple of houses on the other. Eventually she stopped as it was difficult for her to see out of the window with others in the way. She turned to check if Izzy could talk a bit with her again unfortunately she also decided to take a nap. It didn't seem as though Stephen was going to talk to her so she gave up.
An hour went by with nothing else going on. Mala was lying down and was thinking to herself when all of a sudden she felt a something lean on her. Something warm. Something red. She started to turn bright red as she heard gentle snoring from her side. She could feel fluff brush on her neck as it turned his head. "Please don't tell me, this is who I think it is" Mala thought to herself. She hesitantly glanced over her side to see a certain flareon snoozing away leaning on her while his head (and fluff) was buried in her neck.
It took a lot for Mala not to scream out loud. As she was pondering how to get the napping Flareon off of her when she felt more weight being placed onto her shoulders. She gasped as Stephen started to get up a little bit and nuzzling her creating more weight for her to try to hold up. She then heard laughing from behind her. She turned her head to the best of her ability to see Izzy trying to hold her laughter.
"You know, Mala" She began "I'm not so sure whether he's your boyfriend now or not" She then fell back laughing. "Cause he's certainly acting like it now!"
Mala silently cursed herself for getting in such a mess but what she did not realise was that Stephen (who is still asleep) had moved back and leapt at the unsuspecting glaceon. This resulted with Mala flat on her back on the spread across the two seat with Stephen on top lying on her. Mala desperately tried to get him off but her efforts were futile as Stephen stayed put on top of her.
Despite all of this things got worse. As Mala was to shove sleeping Pokémon off of her, Izzy decided to peek her head over to see whether Mala had solved her conundrum only to be rewarded with a sight which made her start laughing even louder. It was a miracle how nobody noticed.
"Izzy, can you stop laughing and help me get him off of me" Mala cried out in anger but also in embarrassment. Izzy peeked up again wiping the tears from her face.
"Heh, sorry this is too funny. It's also a really sweet sight, look I even have a picture of you two together now" She replied showing Mala her photo.
"Delete…That…Now" Mala said in pure anger.
Izzy only stuck her tongue "Nah, you can't make me".
"That's it" Mala cried out and fired a blizzard directly at Izzy who seemed to be expecting the attack as a green barrier appeared in front of the Eevee blocking the attack. "What!" Mala yelled in shock as her most powerful attack was stopped.
Izzy gave her a devious smirk "Light Screen" She whispered before the blizzard that hit the green barrier bounced off and was heading straight for Stephen and Mala. Mala could not escape due to someone preventing her from even moving so she braced herself for the attack. It hit them square on and had woken up a certain Pokémon from his slumber.
Stephen mumbled a bit upon waking up and tried to get up. Unknowingly his paw brushed over some fur. He opened his eyes to see a light blue fur. He continued to move his gaze until his eyes reached a pair of light blue eyes of a really flushed glaceon. He continued to gaze into her blue eyes.
A couple minutes later Stephen had realized where he was and he quickly leapt off.
"What on earth, just happened there" He yelled out.
"Oh well…um" Mala mumbled as her voice grew quieter and quieter.
"Well" Stephen asked impatiently.
"Well…um" Mala continued before Izzy decided to interrupt.
"Basically, you fell asleep and you started nuzzling Mala for some reason and also apparently you also leapt onto her putting you and her in an extremely awkward position".
Stephen stared blankly before silently cursing himself for doing such. Mala was burying her face into her arms. She thought to herself "I can't believe that just happened, oh what am going to tell Kate and Mai. Kate's going to be jealous with me and Mai's going to be angry with me and oh I just don't know what to do. I wanted to help Kate get with Stephen but at this rate I'll…" Suddenly she had an idea. "Wait, I think I might know a way to change this to my advantage, but this is going to be risky".
"Hey, Stephen" Mala spoke up.
Stephen looked towards Mala "What do you want" He said in a venomous voice.
Mala took a deep breath before telling him. "I want answers".
Stephen gave her a puzzled look then his expression grew dark again "If it is about what happened then forget it. I was sleeping and I couldn't do anything about it".
"Actually it's not, but rather a more personal matter" Mala told him more confidently.
"And if I refuse to tell you anything, what are you going to do?" Stephen asked.
"Then I tell everyone about what you did to me just then" Mala said in a slightly mischievous tone.
"You wouldn't dare do that" Stephen yelled in aggression. But Mala did not seem to back off.
"Really now, do you actually think that I would back down now, we have proof as well" She faced Izzy. "Don't we Izzy" To which she nods.
"Yup, I got the pictures right here" Izzy flashed the picture quickly to Stephen to which he almost lashes out. "You'd better delete that or else I'll make you sorry you ever lived".
Izzy was about to back off until Mala stepped in. "No way, you're not harming anyone and if you do I tell everyone about your little "attack" on me".
Stephen growled before calming himself back down and facing Mala. "What do you want from me, huh. Revenge for me attacking you, me to entertain you, what do you want from me?"
Mala only shook her head. "As I said I only want answers, answers to some questions I have for you. So I will ask you a couple of questions and all you have to do is answer them, is that okay for you?"
Stephen pondered to himself and after a while he reluctantly agreed. "Fine, I'll answer your questions however this does not give you the excuse to invade my privacy. Therefore, any questions that are too personal I will refuse to answer".
"Seems fair, okay first off you know my friend, Kate" Mala began to which Stephen nodded. "Well, have you two ever met before coming to this school".
Stephen nodded his head. "Yes, why?" He asked curiously
Mala then smiles "At least, I know he's telling the truth" she thinks to herself before continuing. "When did you meet her?" To which he answers.
"Yes, she was in my old school back when I was an eevee. I remember her being a ralts at the time" he replied again.
"Okay, time to go for the big question". She turned her head "Okay then, why did you leave her" She yelled out. Stephen gave her a puzzled look. "You two were friends back then, so why did you leave her and your other friends".
Stephen fell silent and looked down, his expression softened before looking down. He did not move a muscle as he stayed staring into the chair. "Excuse me, did you hear me" Mala asked. Stephen looked up and Mala saw his expression. His look showed depression and guilt. She saw in the corner of his eye, tears threatening to come out. He turned away for a second and wiping them away. He turned back towards Mala with a face of sadness.
"Umm… are you okay?" Mala asked worriedly. Then she heard Stephen mumbling quietly to himself but it wasn't clear to Mala what he had said. "What did you say, can you speak up please".
"…I'm sorry" Stephen mumbled ever so quietly.
"Umm… what was that, again?" Mala asked again as Stephen was still too quiet. Minutes later Stephen took a deep breath before looking at her with a blank face. "I cannot answer that question because it is just a bit too personal. Is there anything else you would like to know"?
Mala seeing the state that Stephen was in right now decided that the poor flareon has had enough of an emotional time as it is and would not want him to suffer further. She shook her head. "No, that'll be all, thank you" Mala replied back to which Stephen nodded in understanding.
After asking Stephen the questions Mala placed her head onto the headrest behind her and sighed in relaxation. She turned to see Stephen had also done the same but he had closed his eyes. "If you don't mind I'm going to rest again" He told her. "If I start acting weirdly again do not be hesitant to wake me up by whatever means necessary".
Mala then nodded. "If you say so, but I warn you if you try anything funny you're coming out of this bus in an ice cube" Mala threatened playfully. She could have sworn she had heard a chuckle from Stephen.
"I'll keep that in mind" He replied back before relaxing his body onto the seat. Just before he got comfortable he heard Mala say. "Before you sleep, I just want to apologise for blackmailing you there, I only wanted answers so I could help Kate".
Stephen smiled to himself for a moment. "It's okay, don't worry yourself about it". And with that his shut his eyes and drifted off into his own little world.
Chaos: Fluff... So much fluff
Treecko: Yeah, a bit over-board
Chaos: ...Nah, I like it
Treecko: Whatever you say
Chaos: Anyways, thank you for reading, see ya