Yea, it's time for another chapter! But a note to y'all out there, I made Blue and Crys' names Japanese because 1. They don't have last names, and 2. THEY ARE JAPANESE. You cannot stop my belief in that, they were made in Japan, they will be Japanese. Blue's alias was named that because Aoi is Blue in Japanese. Deal with it. Moving on, on a happier note, it's the second chapter! A little more romance in this chapter, Blue, Crys, Yellow, and Sapphire get accustomed to PSTA, meet new people, find familiar faces, and try to discover the meaning of the school.
Disclaimer: I'm sure you don't own Pokemon either…
A Miscellaneous Tale of Night and Day
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Chapter 1: House of the Talents
September 30th
Yellow's POV
I panicked, my eyes darted around an unfamiliar room. I bolted out of bed and ran over to the window as ChuChu opened her eyes and yawned. I gazed out at the scenery in horror, I couldn't see another town despite how high I was, just miles and miles of forest. I stepped back, what happened to me? Where was I?
I ran out the door of the bedroom, and ChuChu followed me. I was now in what seemed like the living room, not very large, being an apartment. There was a white could set a couple feet from a flat screen television. If you turned, there was the front door, set on a lower floor for a place to take off your shoes before you enter. Near that was the entrance to the kitchen, small and simple with a sink and cupboards. But none of these caught my attention before the view, the scenery outside the windows that lined along the wall.
I stepped across the room slowly, and placed my hands on the see-through glass as I gazed out front. Unlike the back, it wasn't a never-ending forest, it was a town. Apartments surrounded my own from each side, a small community in the middle of nowhere. The sun rose, appearing just behind a group of smaller buildings farther away. Finally, there was a towering structure of a giant brick red building. It was taller than the apartment, it had to have had at least five stories. It was fancy, old-fashioned, like a Victorian style. A school… PSTA. I thought, that must have been it. I looked down, there was a sidewalk between the apartments and a row of trees, a few students in uniform walked past casually.
I stepped back from the window, I gripped my blonde ponytail, turning it in knots. I didn't know what to do, I was like the lost children that wandered into the Viridian Forest. ChuChu gave me a nudge, and gave out a small "Pika!" before leaping on my shoulders. I looked at her, the pink flower rested on her head. I looked at the front door, like it held out it's open arms. I headed forward, I'll do what I did when I first entered the Viridian Forest myself.
Explore.
There was a set of stairs leading to the lower levels, none up, I guess my room was on the top floor. There was a small elevator, too, but I wanted to see the other floors. I ran down the next few flights of stairs with ChuChu right on my tail. The first floor I came to was completely normal, exactly like mine from the outside, the front door left as it was and a welcome mat at the front. The second floor's door was cracked open slightly, but not enough for me to see inside the room. The third floor I came by had the door wide open, almost like it had been broken down, the occupant must have not been happy.
I finally reached the last floor, since there wasn't any more stairs to run down. There were some shards of shattered clay on the floor, that made me nervous. The door there was simply left closed, ready for me to open it. ChuChu caught up with me as I stood at the bottom of the staircase, staring at the final door. I walked to it slowly, and held out my hand to the doorknob, then turned it and opened it.
"I guess we could—"
The voice stopped as I entered the room.
It was a large room, about the size of the entire bottom floor, but the furniture didn't make it feel as spacious. Three long, black couches surrounded a wooden coffee table, all set in front of a flat screen television on the wall to my right. There was a large kitchen setup open to the living space, including a stove and an island. There was a closet near the door and a bathroom in the far corner. Lastly, on the couches rested three girls.
It was a strange group. The girl on the couch to the farthest of me was a calm girl near my age, with devious blue eyes and long, shining brown hair that touched the couch when she sat. She laid back in the couch, eating strawberries from a green bowl on the coffee table. She wore a blue and white tee shirt with a sea green pleated skirt, topped off with a white hat. The one on the middle couch was a nervous girl, younger than me, though it didn't seem by appearances. She had curled her hair into two black pigtails that stuck up, her eyes were a crystal blue and wide with either worry, concern, or confusion, maybe all three. She was wearing pajamas, unlike the other two. The last girl sat on the couch right in front of me, a strawberry stuck from her mouth, and she ate with the least of formality. She was a brunette with long bangs, her hair in a spiky ponytail in the back with wild sapphire blue eyes. She wore a blue sleeveless and black spats with her white and blue gloves. All of their eyes were positioned on one thing: Me.
"Please don't tell me you don't have any answers either." The girl with the sapphire eyes whined.
"It's unlikely." The pigtailed girl said sadly.
"Freshman, too, eh?" The calm brunette said, taking the pigtailed girl's word for it. She met my eyes and smiled, she got up and grabbed at strawberry from the bowl and stuck it into her mouth, eating it halfheartedly as she walked towards me. She stood in front of me and examined me, she leaned forward and I leaned back, frozen in spot. I was making and awkward face, my mouth was in a forced smile to keep myself from looking weird, it was backfiring. The brunette backed off, and started to laugh. I got really confused then.
"She's good, just nervous." She announced to the other two, who seemed to relax a bit. She patted my shoulder and smiled, "I'm Blue, believe it or not, I'm just as confused as you are." She reassured. She pointed to her hat. "This is Ditty." I looked at her as if she was crazy, but then I saw a pair of dot eyes and a squiggly smile appear on the front of the hat, it was a ditto.
The sapphire eyed girl starched her neck back and looked at me. She waved to me and smirked, flipping over right-side up. "I'm Sapphire! This is Toro." A torchic suddenly popped out into my view, ruffling it's fiery orange feathers next to its trainer. "I suppose you got "the scholarship" too, right?" Sapphire asked, looking at me in the eye.
"We all did, what are we supposed to do about it?" The pigtailed girl asked, looking up. She was patting something next to her, something green and fuzzy, a chikorita. She looked up at me and smiled. "I'm Crystal, don't mind me, I don't do much except study." She admitted. "This is Mega, she's a good partner." She said, looking down at the leaf-topped pokemon.
Blue turned back to me. "So, you're turn!" She grinned, pointing to me.
I flinched, caught off guard. "I, well, um, I'm Yellow. I'm from the Viridian Forest, this is ChuChu." I averted my gaze to the pikachu, who hopped her way up onto my shoulder.
"Viridian?" Blue's eyes widened, then she laughed. "That's not far from where I camped!" She commented, giggling to herself. She back over and jumped back onto the couch. Ditty flew off her head and landed on her stomach, and it changed back to a pink blob. She sat up and patted to the seat next to her, "Sit down, Yellow."
I made my way over to the couch, and sat down next to Blue. Sapphire sat up and looked around at everyone. "So I guess we can start." She said, grabbing another strawberry from the bowl.
"Start? Start what?" I asked.
"That." Crystal pointed to a card and a remote on the table. "The card says that we we're supposed to turn on the TV, but we can't do it until everyone's here."
"Aah! Let's just get started already!" Sapphire snatched the remote from the table and clicked on the television.
Ten Minutes Earlier- Crystal's POV
Now all was as calm and peaceful when I came downstairs.
As soon as I opened the door I ducked a flying vase, which flew over and crashed into the railings of the stairs behind me. Oh my god… Where am I…? I turned back around to the living room. A brunette girl with short ponytail seemed to have been the person to have thrown the vase. Her eyes were blazing as she rampaged around the room. She must have been really angry.
"Grr… Who would even dare to try and take me… I swear, once I catch the guy who did this… I… I…" Suddenly, with immense power, she grabbed the couch, and lifted in the air and turned around. "That sick, son of a—!"
"WHAH!" I screamed, ready to bolt. Mega did the same next to me, both of our eyes were wide with shock.
The girl stopped when she saw me. She paused for a moment, then set the couch down. She laughed nervously, and a torchic flapped onto her shoulder and cocked it's head. "Well! Well! Sorry about that… you see, I'm not supposed to be here… so if you could tell me where we are so I can go get back to Stoopilis… maybe get some chocolate ice cream… hehehe…" She said, laughing between sentences.
I blinked, "Um… Sorry… But I don't know…"
"WHAT?" The girl's eyes widened. She growled, "What was that announcement earlier… do you know what that was?"
"The announcement, you mean…" Crap, it wasn't a dream.
She sighed. "Well I guess there's no helping it. Let's ju— HEY! WHO'RE YOU!"
I looked on the couch the girl had previously picked up. On it was another brunette with straight, long hair eating a bowl of strawberries. "Hey." She smirked, and put another strawberry in her mouth. "I guess I'm not alone here at all." She pointed out.
I stared at her, she was pretty, but her expression showed glimpses of devilish thoughts. It sent shivers down my spine. I walked over and took a seat on the middle couch. "C-Crystal" I said nervously.
"What?" the wild girl asked as she hopped onto the other couch.
"I'm Crystal and this is Mega." I introduced myself, and held up my confused chikorita.
"Ooohh… I'm Sapphire! This is Toro!" The wild girl introduced, and the torchic let out a peep.
"Blue, this is Ditty." The pretty girl shifted her eyes up towards her hat, and she put the bowl of strawberries on the table. I stared at it, until I could see a pair of beady eyes and a strange smile. Ah, a ditto.
"So, I think it's about time to find out what's going on." Sapphire said, plucking out a strawberry from the bowl.
My eyes shifted around the room, then rested on a white spot on the table. There was a card and a remote, I picked it up and read off it. "When all four have come down, turn on the TV. If not all have come by 7:10am, wake them up. Turn on the television by 7:15am.
We thought for a moment, then I spoke up. "I guess we could—"
Then the door opened, and a blonde girl entered.
Present
Sapphire clicked on the television.
Instantly, a woman's face appeared on the screen, she had icy eyes and red flowing hair in a ponytail. She wore a black women's suit and stared directly at the screen. The HD of the broadcast was incredible, it was like she was right in front of you.
"Hello freshmen. Welcome to the Pokemon Special Talents Academy, or the PSTA for short. My name is Lorelei, Vice President of PSTA. You might have a lot of questions at this point. Why are you here? Why were you brought here? What is the purpose of this school? Where are you?" Lorelei smiled, her red tinted lips curving with false affection, making shivers go up my spine. "Some of these questions I can answer, some I cannot. Not because I don't know the answer, but simple because we cannot tell you."
I heard Sapphire growl in the couch to the right of me, her eyes blazing with anger.
"Why are you here?" Lorelei began, "Because, of course, your talents have been recognized by our council. Whether with pokemon, mental, or physical abilities, you are of some use to our little "project". What is the purpose of this school? Major details, we will not tell you. But we will train and strengthen your abilities to their fullest in our classes. Why were you brought here? You saw it yourself, the scholarship. However, that invitation is not one that can be rejected. It is a mere warning of the events to come. You cannot teleport, fly, or use any sort of transportation to leave, just to put it shortly. Where are you?" Lorelei smirked "You'll have to figure that out on your own."
On the couch to my left, Blue crushed a strawberry in her hand. The clear-pink juice oozed out her hand, dripping onto her skirt. Blue was angry, she was so calm when she came, she must have been holding it in. On her side, Yellow shivered, she clutched her pikachu tightly, her eyes gazed at the screen in horror.
Lorelei continued, "Right now, you have until 8:05am to get to dress in your summer uniform, they are in your closet, and head over to the main school building, and get to class. Your schedules will be here when you get back downstairs. On the back of your schedule sheets will be a map, you will use that to navigate. Your classmates will vary on your current grade level by age, meaning there will be a variety of students you can get information from. You may carry pokemon up to 1 to 1.5 feet tall, the rest must be in a pokeball and not used unless necessary. Bring your notebooks and textbooks on your desk upstairs. From this point on, I wish you all…" Lorelei gazed at the camera. "…good luck." Then the screen went black.
"Screw this!" Sapphire kicked the leg of the table, and it snapped in half. The green bowl of strawberries began to slide down, but in a flash, Blue caught it right before it spilt.
Blue stood back up with the bowl in one hand, and eating a strawberry with the other. "You can't waste a perfectly good bowl of strawberries." She said, licking her lips.
I can understand why they were here. When I looked down, I could see that the table was only half wood, inside the broken leg was a steel bar that reinforced the table from breaking, but it didn't do a good job in Sapphire's case. She even picked up that couch earlier without breaking a sweat. I switched my gaze over to Toro, her torchic. If she was that strong, was that really the strongest her pokemon got? Blue, too was understandable. I couldn't even feel her presence until I saw her in the room. Nowhere had I had seen that bowl of strawberries either, she must have gotten them out of the fridge without neither Sapphire nor I seeing it. I couldn't see her as she caught the bowl, either. I didn't know what Yellow could do yet, she didn't show any signs of anything, just a normal girl with a pikachu.
I then looked over at the clock.
"Ah! 7:32am!" I yelled, and grabbed Mega and ran upstairs while the others scrambled to get their stuff together.
I slid the door of my closet open, and there it was. My uniform was a white button up shirt with and a blue and white plaid, pleated skirt with a matching tie with a gold and blue emblem of the school on it, the letters "ST" on it. The shoes were ordinary, black loafers, much life my old school's. I turned to the desk behind me, on it was a set of notebooks and textbooks, one for each needed class. On the side of my desk hung a school bag, just a normal Japanese schoolbag, dark blue with a handle on top. I filled it with the books and snapped it shut after I dressed. It was weird and awkward at the same time, the clothes fit me perfectly, like they were made for me. I checked my hair once more before heading out, in two perfect pigtails, combed and all.
I left the room, uniform and all, and looked out the window, checking the sidewalk below. The students were walking casually, no hurry at all. That must have meant there was still time to relax. I didn't eat any of the strawberries downstairs, so I grabbed at piece of toast and stuck it in my mouth, just like the day before I came here. After that, I ran out.
I was only two floors up from the ground floor, I didn't need the elevator. I easily walked down the stairs with Mega tailing me from behind, assuming she was small enough to stay out of her pokeball. Once I got to the ground floor, the floor we all had our little "orientation" in, I left out the front door.
There was a breeze as soon as I stepped outside. It was a sunny day, only a few clouds in the sky. I looked down both ends of the road, apartments as far as I could see, there were students walking all one way, but I decided to wait for the others. There were a variety of students, some looked too young to be in high school. Most of them had pokemon on their side, a pichu, a starly, a rattata, a senret, Mega began to get interested. I held her back, and sighed. Sapphire, Blue, and Yellow came out in about five minutes.
"This sucks." Sapphire put.
"It surprises me, Sapphire." Blue said, poking her arm.
"What?" Sapphire asked as she turned her gaze to Blue, shifting her arm.
"You don't seem like the type to wear a skirt so easily." Blue laughed.
"Oh." Sapphire looked down at her skirt, then lifted it to show her pair of spats. "I'm wearing leggings underneath."
I sweatdropped, I didn't think that was in the school dress code, not to mention how calm she was about lifting her skirt, but I knew better then to mention it. I began to run off, heading for the school.
"Hey!" Blue's voice caught my attention, and a turned back around. I almost yelped, Blue was right behind me, her cool smirk flashing near my face, "You're not seriously leaving without us, are you?"
Yellow and Sapphire ran up, I looked at them, and nodded. "O-Okay…"
We're almost there, I swear! The next chapter will be up soon, Blue, Yellow, Crys and Sapph meet Red, Green, Gold, and Ruby! Heroines meet heroes, ect. I hope you liked the chapter! Silver, Platina, Dia, and Pearl will appear! I promise! Sometime… Okay, I was gonna make this chapter longer, but I decided to cut it and make two separate chapters because then everything wouldn't be shoved into your head all at once. All four shippings will appear in the next chapter, again, promise. I accept any ideas or suggestions you may or may not want to see in the story in the future (humor, accidental kiss, parody, whatever you can think of)
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-Starri
