Kate-Hika-chan doesn't own Pokemon or Pokemon Ranger.
Hika-chan-*In emo corner growing mushrooms* I didn't win the case...*sobs*
Rythmi-She doesn't own the emo corner either, or the growing of mushrooms from Tamaki-senpai.
Mizu-Enjoy!
Rythmi and I walked out of the classroom and I leaned against the wall. "Whew." I sighed. I didn't really like my personality much sometimes. "What's wrong?" asked Rythmi. "I want to make friends with everyone and not be known as 'that girl'. Rythmi turned and put her hands on her hips. "You were like that back in Fiore?" she asked.
"Well, yeah. It started in first grade, when I transferred classes. When I was introducing myself, this one kid wasn't paying attention-and I need people to pay attention when I'm talking-so I knocked him upside the head with that same glare." I explained in a breath. "Whoa, that must've been rough." Rythmi smiled. "But, its okay, you're at a new place, so there are new people," she said as she walked toward me.
She reached for my cheeks and started pulling on them. "So wipe that frown off your face!" she exclaimed. I pulled off Rythmi's grabby fingers from my cheeks and rubbed my face. "Ouch," I whined. I looked at the door that led to outside. I loved it out there. "Can we go outside first?" I asked. Rythmi shook her head, "Not unless the bell rings."
I sighed and smiled. "Okay, then let's go upstairs first!" We walked up the stairs as I wondered what the basement was like, as its staircase was right next to the stairs to the second floor. "This is where we settle down, coed style." Rythmi smiled as she held out her arms.
"Oh, hi Rythmi," said a voice. I whirled around to one of the large eating tables, the one that was closest to the door that said GIRLS' DORM on the door, and saw a beautiful lady with short brown hair cut to her shoulders. She had a pink dress on that cut down to her ankles and wore an apron over it. She was holding a pen in her hand and was writing something.
"Oh, hi, Janice!" Rythmi exclaimed. "This is Kate, she's a new student here and I'm giving her a tour," she explained. "Oh, well nice to meet you, I'm Janice, the caretaker here." Janice smiled politely. Rythmi whispered in my ear, "She's like a mom to all of us, but if someone does something really bad, she'll practically blow up. She's even worse than Ms. April."
I gulped, but smiled at the nice lady who would end up acting as my motherly figure while I was here. We walked back down the stairs and walked over to the room on the right, which was the library. It was huge, with shelves lining two of the walls, and chairs, a few tables, and even some couches set up for reading. In the back was a boy with mushroom-cut blonde hair. He wore a lab coat.
Rythmi told me that was Isaac. "He gets to skip class sometimes because he's the smartest in the school." Rythmi told me. She introduced us and then we went to the room on the opposite side, the teacher's meeting room. I finally got to meet my new principal, Principal Lamont. He always smiled in the time I've seen him. As we left, I noticed Ms. April sitting down in a chair drinking coffee.
Guess she just wanted a break.
Next, we headed to the classroom next to ours. When I entered, I saw everyone working on papers and smelled a strong scent of hair spray. I looked up to the teacher's desk to see a man with blonde hair in a huge curl. "That's Mr. Kincaid. He's a real pain. 'Don't run in the hallway' is like his motto. Plus, he uses five bottles of spray a day to get his hair that way." Rythmi explained. He glared at me as he just noticed that we were in there.
"This is our new student, Kate." Rythmi introduced. "Yes…Yes…" he muttered. "Well, don't run in the hallways." I sweatdropped and Rythmi and I walked out of the room with a laugh. "Hey, can we go down into the basement?" I asked, recovering from the moment. "Nope, that's Kincaid's lab, so, you get the point." Rythmi said.
Yeah, I did get it. Then the bell rang. A huge smiled spread across my face and I jumped out the door as Rythmi held it open for me. I ran around like an idiot in circles. "Kate, can we get moving?" Rythmi asked me, a sweatdrop coming on. I smiled sheepishly. "S-Sure." She took me to where I captured the Pikachu and introduced me properly to Professor Kaplan and Ms. Claire.
They gave me a quick lesson on capturing and clearing targets, just in case. Once we got back outside, though, all hell was being released. Rythmi and I watched as a bunch of Bidoof fled around the school grounds, Janice in the middle of it all. We ran over to her. "Janice, what's up with the Bidoof?" I asked. "I accidentally stepped on their leader's tail, and everyone got angry and started running around." Janice explained.
"So this is what's going on!" said a familiar voice. I turned to the doors to see Keith examining the place. "Say, girl, how 'bout a challenge? Whoever captures the most Bidoof wins?" he asked with a wild grin. I liked his offer, plus we would help Janice get the Bidoof back in order. "Kate isn't—!" Rythmi started, but I cut her off saying, "Sounds good to me!" I grabbed my styler, and pointed it out. "Three!" I announced. "Two!" said Keith. "One!" "CAPTURE ON!"
The capture discs went flying around the front of the school. I quickly captured four Bidoof without a problem, but when I looked around for another, there were none. The contest was over. I stashed my styler away into its regular belt pocket and met up with Rythmi, Janice, and Keith in the middle of the yard. I looked at the Bidoof that Keith had captured. I counted them in my mind. Five. He captured FIVE BIDOOF!
I made sure I didn't blow up and took a deep breath. Keith was counting up his Bidoof and cheered. "I win!" he said as he blew at his styler as if he just shot a gun. "I got five Bidoof, and you only got four." He triumphed.
Rythmi face palmed. "Well, good for you…?" Janice wondered if she should have even said with a sweatdrop. "Thank you, though! Those were amazing captures. I'll leave you extra dessert tonight." She winked and walked away with the now happy Bidoof trotting behind her.
I held out my hand to Keith. He stared. "What?" he asked. I can't believe how stupid this boy is. "Shake, that was a nice contest." I said to him. He looked at my hand, then back to me, and then to his hand. "Fine, I guess. Hey, and your actually pretty good at doing captures." He complimented me.
"Well, now that that's done, I want to show you one more place, Kate." Rythmi sighed. "Wait, you mean Ascension Square?" Keith asked. Rythmi nodded. "Then I'll come to," he added. Rythmi glared at him in surprise. "Do what you want." Rythmi said. She grabbed my hand and led me down a stairway that was to the left of the yard.
When we got down the stairs, I stared at what I saw. There was a huge stone statue in the middle of a small field. There was a small wooden dock by the sea. The statue was of the ranger's symbol: a capture disc. "Wow." I muttered. "Nice right? Well, that's the end of Rythmi's awesome tour." Rythmi ended with a smile.
She turned to me. "So, Kate, want to be friends?" asked Rythmi. She held out her hand to me. I watched, surprised. Keith heard this and turned away from the statue and to me. "No, be friends with me Kate." Keith piped in. I stared at them both, not knowing what to do, my shyness leaking out.
I started pacing around, trying to think about what to do. Then, I stumbled on a rock. "Kate!" Keith said. He grabbed one arm and Rythmi grabbed my other and prevented me from falling. I made up my mind. "Can't you both just be my friends?" I asked. Keith and Rythmi looked at each other, than to me. "Fine." They said in sync with a smile. I was pulled back up and we all started laughing. I don't know why, but we started laughing.
I predicted that we would be a strange group.
Our laughing was broken by the sound of the bell ringing. "We better get back to class or else Kincaid's gonna catch us!" Rythmi exclaimed. We started running for the stairs when I heard Rythmi add in, "But, boy oh boy Keith! Aren't you the slick one." I snickered and kept on running so Mr. Kincaid wouldn't catch us in the halls and give us a detention.
After that, during the night, Rythmi and I were sitting on our bunk bed in the girls dormitory. I was on the lower bed when Rythmi looked down, as she had the top bunk. "What 'ya doing?" she asked. I looked up at her. I had a pen in my hands and a pink notepad. "Writing a letter for my little sister. It's about what happened today," I smiled at her.
"Really? I already wrote to my parents about you, Kate!" Rythmi exclaimed. "I bet Keith has too!" I smiled again and put my notepad and pen under my pillow and sighed. Rythmi started looking around the dorm, and whispered down to me, "Say, let's sneak out for a while." I looked at her, astonished.
She was my friend though, so I trusted her. We got out of our bunk bed and put on our uniform jacket. We walked out and I noticed that the girls inside the dorm were looking at me with cheerful smiles. Plus, I noticed that only two of the girls were in the room, not including me and Rythmi.
When we exited, I saw six boys, including Keith, and four girls waiting for us in front of the table closest to the girls' dormitory. "What's this?" I asked. "This is the test of courage. It's what starts off every new student's school life." Keith said with a grin. "Four of us hid our stylers around the school, and you have to find them. After that, you take all four and put them in the basement." Rythmi said to do.
"And you get someone to go with you, which is who ever sits next to you in class." Rythmi added slyly. Everyone started staring at Keith. He gulped as a sweatdrop appeared on his head. "Crap, that's me." He sighed.
"Okay the two of you, off you go!" Rythmi exclaimed in a shushed voice. I sighed and walked down the stairs, Keith following me. When we got to the first floor, it was dark. Really dark. So dark I couldn't see. I started feeling around for Keith, but I couldn't find him. I was about to call out his name when…
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
I turned to where I heard Keith scream. "Shh!" I said, finding him and covering his mouth. I struggled to keep his mouth shut as he kept on pulling at my hand, so I had to cling to him. Finally, he bit my hand. "Ghost," he whimpered. I looked around and tried spotting something in the darkness. I saw a faint shape of a Bidoof and chuckled. "It's a Bidoof, stupid." I said into his ear.
He turned to my face and I could feel his cheeks radiating warmth, probably because it was cold. "Uh, could you let go of me?" he asked. Then I realized that we were really close and I still had my arm on his shoulder. I didn't really mind though, but it was kind of uncomfortable.
So, I moved away from him and looked around, even though I couldn't see anything. "Where do we go first?" I asked. "How 'bout our classroom?" Keith suggested. We walked to our classroom, and on the way I felt the Bidoof brush against my leg as we walked. I ignored it and kept going. I clicked the button that took out the glowing styler whip on my styler and used it as a light to open the door.
Inside the classroom, there were a bunch of boxes everywhere. I knew the styler had to be in the box. Then I remember what Ms. Claire had taught me, about clearing a target. "Wait here." I said to Keith. "Wait-!" he called. But I had already walked out the room. He sweatdropped.
I exited and turned to where I though the Bidoof was. "Here, Bidoof! Here!" I called out in a whisper. Then, I heard the scuttling of paws and felt the soft fur of the Bidoof against my foot. That was when I realized that I didn't have any shoes on.
I was wearing my night gown and my uniform jacket. I was holding my styler the whole time. I sweatdropped. "Well, this is embarrassing…" I muttered. Then, I crouched down to pet the Bidoof. "Will you let me capture you so I can do some jobs?" I asked politely. The Bidoof automatically nodded, so I stood back up and readied myself.
I pointed my styler out and said "Capture on!" I clicked the button and the disc went flying. Within seconds, I had captured the Bidoof. I ran back to the classroom and saw Keith waiting for me at my desk. He saw the Bidoof and smiled. Then, I started clearing the targets. Inside the boxes I found a few Pichu, a box of cookies (which we ate), and a school styler.
"That's mine!" Keith exclaimed. He grabbed his styler from the ground and clipped it back onto his belt. Then, he noticed I was in my night gown."Why are you wearing your night gown?" he asked. "Well, Rythmi just said to sneak out, so we grabbed our jackets and left." I said, not seeing why he had a problem with it, probably was weird to see your friend in her pj's.
Next we headed to Kincaid's room and quickly found the styler that was on a counter. Then, we headed to the library and I got Rythmi's styler that was at the last table. Last, we went to get the last styler, which was strung around a running Pichu's neck. It took me a while to get it, and Keith ended up helping me a lot.
But afterwards, we received the last styler and headed down the stairs to the basement. It was even darker down there, if that was even possible. We headed down a small hallway and took a turn to the right when Keith asked me if I had heard something. I shook my head no, even though he couldn't see that.
"No," I said. "Hearing ghost again?" I added in, figuring he was afraid of them. "N-No!" he stuttered. I smiled and continued my test. I saw a door and decided to place the stylers there. I put them there gently and asked Keith for his. When I finished putting them down, Keith sighed, "Finally, let's get outta here!"
We just started moving when Keith was hit on the head with a small cardboard box. We whirled around, Keith holding his head. What we saw was a bunch of Gastly (four to be exact) coming toward us. I put my styler in front of me and clicked the button that sent the disc flying out. "CAPTURE ON!"
I quickly started circling around the Pokemon, but every so often, they would disappear from our sight and reappear. It took a while, but I managed after about five minutes. I panted and turned to Keith, showing a face that said, "that took a lot of work."
"Sorry I couldn't help," he whispered to me. I smiled. Then, the door slammed open, and the four stylers went flying to the side. "Who's down here?" he asked loudly. He spotted me and Keith over in the bend between the halls. "You two!" he yelled. I grabbed at the four stylers and Keith grabbed my hand as we started running back upstairs.
Kincaid stepped back into his lab and asked, "How's it going, Isaac?" "Almost done, Mr. Kincaid." Isaac yawned in reply. "Why don't you go get some rest and we'll finish up tomorrow?" suggested Kincaid, acting nice. "Thank you. Good night."Isaac said as he left the room.
BACK UPSTAIRS
Keith and I were sitting on the floor and the stylers were all cramped into my left hand. Keith's hand was resting on mine, and we were panting. "What happened?" asked Rythmi with a worried look. "When we…got downstairs…there were a bunch of Gastly…and then Kincaid came out of his lab," I panted. "Kate grabbed the stylers…and we were outta there." Keith ended.
I held up the four stylers and everyone grabbed theirs. I got up and felt Keith's hand fall off mine. I looked toward the staircase while everyone else was looking at Keith. "Hey, Keith, why's you face all red?" asked Ponte. "I'm hot! That's all!" Keith gasped.
Then, I heard footsteps. Rythmi opened her eyes wide. "Everyone hide!" she slithered. "It might be Kincaid!" I looked around as everybody dispersed. I went under the table where a lot of chairs blocked all sight of me. Then I heard a voice, "Huh, I thought I heard Rythmi's voice." Isaac said.
I sighed and started getting up from my spot under the table. "Hey, Kate!" Isaac said as he spotted me. He walked over to me and helped me up. "What're you doing down there?" he asked. I smiled sheepishly as I rubbed the back of my head. "H-Hiding." I said. "From…?" Isaac continued.
"We thought you were Kincaid coming up, so we hid. We were just finishing up Kate's test of courage." Rythmi explained as she came out from behind a curtain. "Oh, so it went all right?" Isaac asked happily. "Who did you go with?" "K-Keith. I went with him. He sits next to me." I explained.
Isaac laughed. "I bet he was scared." I nodded, trying to stifle my laugh. "Stop laughing about me!" Keith finally said as he got out of a cabinet with the help of Ponte. I looked at him apologetically with my blue eyes. "Sorry, Keith, but it's true." I stifled remembering the incident with the Bidoof.
Keith grumbled away into the boys' dormitory angrily as red flushed his cheeks. I looked at him, wondering why he kept doing that. "Well, good night!" I called after him with a smile. I turned back to everyone else. "Thanks guys, it was really fun. Good night." I said. After that, we all dispersed back into our dorms.
While everyone else was sleeping in the whole building, I was still awake. And wide awake at that. "Hey, Rythmi?" I whispered into the darkness. "Yeah?" she asked as she bent over to take a peek at me. "Why was Keith so grouchy earlier when Isaac came?" I asked.
"He and Isaac didn't really get along too well at the beginning of the year. Keith blew up his styler in Isaac's face, and Isaac shocked him back with the help of the recharge by the stairs." Rythmi explained holding back a snicker. I smiled. "I bet that's what made his hair so spiky." I whispered with a laugh. "Actually, it made his hair even spikier!" Rythmi added with a smile.
"But, he did act a little different today. Usually, he would-just at the sight of Isaac-start yelling at him." Rythmi said. I pondered in my mind for a while. "Well, how 'bout we get some sleep. Tomorrow, we have work to do." I said, thinking we would be doing math equations. "Well, think what you want. Good night." said Rythmi as she put her head back to her pillow. I turned my body to the side and half my face was stuffed in the pillow.
'Maybe he acted differently because he was still scared from the Bidoof?" I thought. I fell asleep with a smile on my face that night.
The next morning, I realized that I had woken up late. I was supposed to wake up at seven, and it was already seven thirty. I quickly got up, changed into my uniform and headed down the stairs in a hurry. When I got to my classroom, I put my ear to the door to hear what was going on.
Ms. April was asking the class if they knew what today was. and they replied "OUTDOOR CLASS!" I wondered what it was, and as the door opened, I quickly stepped to the side to be unknown by the kids in my class and Ms. April. When I saw Keith and Rythmi come out last, I met up with them. I had just appeared in front of them, and they got scared.
That made the three of us go crashing down. First I fell, Keith landed on me being across my body., and Rythmi sat on top. I squirmed to get up. "Rythmi! Get up!" I complained. "Fine, fine. Don't get your knickers in a twist." she said as she arose. I saw Keith's face turn red and he immediately turned away from he as he got up.
Finally, I got up and dusted my uniform off with my hands. "Oi, let's hurry up!" Keith said, remembering today was outdoor class. We started running to Ascension Square when I asked, "What's outdoor class?" Rythmi and Keith looked back at me unbelievably.
"All the more reason to get there faster!" Rythmi said to Keith with a smile as she started running faster. We stumbled down the stairs right on time. There stood a man in a red ranger uniform with a gangly and HUGE afro. "I'm Ranger Crawford!" he introduced loudly.
Hika-chan- Er, I hoped you all liked that one! *rubs hands together maliciously*
Rythmi and Keith-*stares angrily with mouth wide open*
Hika-chan-What?
Rythmi-You made me say 'don't get your knickers in a twist!' That is soooo old!
Hika-chan-So?
Keith-A-A-and what about the fall, and the clinging, and the fall, and when Isaac came in? *blushes madly*
Hika-chan-*evil glint in eyes appears* Oh, it's all part of my master plan...Heh heh. Oh, plus, torturing you is fun!
Mizu and Kate-*Walk into room*
Kate-What's going on? *Looks at Keith*
Mizu-*Pats shoulder* You dense, DENSE girl.
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