IMN: *In a corner with a gloomy aura and muttering nonsense*
Keith: What's up with the crazy author? o_O'
Isaac: I'm not so sure and I'm the genius. o_O'
Rhythmi: She's just a little bit stressed about her up coming exams in school and won't have much time writing the story.
Kate: Also she just read one of the lastest chapters of 'Soul Eater' and is in deep shock about a huge plot twist in it.
Keith: Ahhhhhhh. Wait! If she's like this, then WE'RE FREE! YEEEEEEEESSSSSS! *Dances like a idiot*
Isaac: Not so fast. Just because she's busy with school and is in shock, doesn't mean we're off the hook. *Keith stops dancing*
Kate: She's still going to write the story in her free time but just not so much because of school.
Rhythmi: Yep. Now suck up like a man and do the disclaimer while we get the author out of the corner!
Keith: *Sigh* Infusion Masters Nightmare doesn't own Pokémon or Soul Eater. I don't know what would happen if we let that crazy girl run the show. ON WITH THE STORY!
Chapter 3: Crazy family calls and the Test of Courage!
Kate's Pov
Annnnnnnnnnd done! I'm finally finished! I been decorating my corner of the room for two hours! Since there's four beds in the room, each bed has its own corner. My bed is at the top left corner of the room with a window. 'Thanks you Janice and you unlimited supply of paints.'
My corner was painted midnight blue with white snowflakes in random places. It reminds me of snow at midnight, which is beautiful in my opinion. I have a white wardrobe and bedside table, which were covered in random paint blots of different colours. I also have a single bed with a cover that was emerald green with black spots, my favourite colours. Hey just because I'm an Ice Mewman, doesn't mean my favourite colours are white and pale blue.
On my bedside table was a white photo frame with green and pink on each corner. I picked up the photo frame to gaze at it. It's a picture of my family from six years ago, when I was starting on my journey to be a pokémon trainer. In the background is my dad, who has short spikey brown hair and he has his right arm around his Abomasnow, Zero. He has left arm around my mother, who has long light brown hair with a hint of pink and is standing next to her Gardevoir, Lily.
I wasn't paying attention to my parents. I was more focused on my siblings. I could see my brother Crawford at the age of twelve with the same brown hair as my dad and a huge grin on his face with his Budew, Bud, on his right shoulder copying him. I could also see my baby sister Remi at the age of two who has the same hair as my mother but tied in pigtails and hugging her Ralts, Grace. I couldn't help but smile at the two of them momentarily but then my smile turned upside down when I looked in the middle of the photo.
In the middle with my Snorunt, Fro, at my side and my twin brother, Luke at age ten, starting our journey together. We were both back-to-back against each other. I had my spikey hair down and a huge smile on my face. My brother, Luke, was older than me by 75 seconds and was 4 inches taller than me. We look like the mirror image of each other except he has my mother's hair colour and was a bit taller. We all looked so happy all together back then but that all changed since that day two years ago. We haven't seen Luke since that day as well.
'No Kate! Don't get sad! If Remi and Crawford were here, Crawford would make bad jokes and Remi would use Physic to mess with him. Heh, Arceus, I miss them.' Before I knew it a pink bubble appeared in front of my face. A few seconds later it popped and revealed a letter and a pink sphere that was the size of my palm with a button on it. I opened the letter and smiled when I read it.
Dear Big Sis,
How are you? Do you like the school so far?
I really, really, REALLY miss you! Daddy and Zero had been crying ever since you left. Not only that, Daddy's tears froze the floor! Mommy gave them a lecture but they continued to cry. Daddy maybe an Ice/Grass type Mewman but that doesn't mean he had to freeze the floor! Mommy helped me with my Physic type training and she taught me how to talk and see you when you arrive in Almia. That pink thingymajigy is a 'Chat Bubble'. It's like a video phone but for Mewmans! When you finish reading this letter, PLEASE call me. I miss you!
Love Remi.
'Trust Remi to have perfect timing. Guess naming her Remiala, the light of the heart, is a perfect choice.' I pressed the button on the 'Chat Bubble' and a large pink bubble floated above it. Then an image of a girl who looks around eight years old and had light brown hair with a hint of pink in her pig tails. Next to her was a Kirlia with a big smile on her face.
"Hi Big Sis! I see you got the 'Chat Bubble'! Well what do you think? I made it today thanks to Mommy! How's Ranger School, is it as cool as people say it is?" asked Remi.
"It's great Remi, I love it! That's so sweet of you! Ranger School is great and I made some new friends like there's a girl named Rhythmi and a guy named Keith-"
"A GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUYYYYYYY?!" shouted my Dad as he ran to the bubble until all I could see was his face.
"Kate how could you?! It was hard enough letting my baby go to a different region all by herself but you got a boyfriend without telling me?! I thought we had a special ' Ice Mewman Father/daughter' bond! Don't you love me anymore?! SAY IT ISN'T SO!" wailed my Dad. 'Trust Dad to be over protective and blowing things out of proportion'. I thought while a bead of sweat dropped.
"Albert, don't interrupt Kate before she finishes her sentence!" shouted my Mum as she pushed Dad's face until I could see Remi again. I also saw a very angry-looking Crawford next to Remi. 'Damn! I forgot to tell him I went to Ranger School!'
"Heh heh. I forgot to tell you that Crawford was visiting us on his week off work." said Remi while looking nervous. I saw Crawford glaring at me and... wait. Is that an afro on his head?
"Kate! How dare you not tell your beloved, amazing and hilarious brother that you went to Ranger School?! Don't you love me anymore?! SAY IT ISN'T SO!" wailed Crawford. 'Like father, like son'.
"Anyway! Guess what Sis! We're moving to Almia! Isn't that great?" said Remi. I couldn't help but be a little bit annoyed because I told them not to move to any region because I don't know where I will be based... Hold on!
"Mum, did you look into my future again?!" I saw my Mum pause for a moment before breaking out in sweat. I should have known that a Physic Mewman with a HUGE curiosity as my mother would look into my future.
"I told you it was a bad idea, Sophia." said Lily to my mother. My mother was now sweating bullets and nervously laughing.
"I'm sorry Kate but you know how curious I can be and from what I saw this Keith person is nice to have as a in-law." said Mum.
"WHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAATTT?!" Everyone else shouted while I had a huge blush on my face. I can't believe she said that, in front of Dad and Crawford of all people!
*Knock Knock* "Hey Kate are you in there? It's me Rhythmi." 'Ahhh! Rhythmi! I can't let her see this!'
"I got to go now, okay? See ya guys!" I said before switching off the 'Chat Bubble' and hid it from plain sight. Seconds later Rhythmi came in with a smile on her face.
"I see you finished decorating your corner. It's very nice. I love the snowflakes, you must really like anything related to ice. I won't be surprised if you are an Ice type yourself." said Rhythmi. 'If only you knew Rhyth. If only you knew...'
"Anyway I was wondering if you would like to sneak out?" asked Rhythmi. Okay, this was weird. I only knew her for five hours and I thought that she was a goody-two-shoes. What is she up to?
"Rhythmi, why would you, a person who follows the rules, want to sneak out past curfew?" I asked.
"Hey! I'm not a goody-two-shoes!" shouted Rhythmi.
...
"Okay, maybe a little bit. Just sneak out with me, pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase!" begged Rhythmi. I let out a sigh and decided to go with her. As we walked out the door, we went to the common area and saw all the students there as well.
"What took you so long? Do you want us to get caught by Kincaid?" asked a very impatient Keith. Rhythmi just put her hands on her hips and glared at the red-haired prodigy.
"Relax, Kincaid is in his basement and the rest of the staff are in bed. Ever heard that 'patience is a virtue'?" said Rhythmi. After that Rhythmi stood on the table and all the students turned towards her.
"Welcome fellow students to come and witness Kate doing the Test of Courage!" said Rhythmi. 'Test of what? What the hell is going on?'
"I bet that you'll be screaming in fear after the first five minutes because you have that 'easily scared' look on you" said Keith with a smirk on his face.
"Why I ought to-" I said before I was interrupted by Rhythmi.
"For all who'd forgotten what the test of courage is or in Kate's case, doesn't know the tradition of the school, I shall remind you all. The Test of Courage is a test to see how brave Kate is. The rules are simple. Four of the students here had hidden their stylers in four different places. Kate, your job is to find all the stylers and bring them down in front of the door in the basement." said Rhythmi.
'Sounds simple to me and I can use my powers without people knowing. A win-win situation.' I thought.
"I must warn you thou, it's pretty dangerous to go down there by yourself. That's why we have a rule that the person who sits on your right in class will be your partner." said Rhythmi. Everyone turned there heads towards Keith. Keith looked in every direction before sighing in defeat.
"Damn it! Fine, I'll go. Just make sure that you aren't as slow as a certain someone." said Keith as he glared at Rhythmi. 'Great, I can't use my powers now. Better to roll with it and make this as painless as I can.' I thought as we both walked down stairs.
When we reached the bottom step I could barely see a thing. If there wasn't a full moon tonight everything would be pitch black. I suddenly heard a noise in front of us. Keith and I stilled until we saw... a Bidoof.
"Hi ya Kate! How's it goin'!"said the Bidoof, it was Bailey.
"Bailey, what are you doing up at this time of night? Shouldn't you be in bed?" I asked the young pokémon.
"I knew you would do that test thingy that the students do every year, so I wanted to help you!"said Bailey with a smile on her face.
"I don't care, you should be in bed by now." I said as I walked to her and picked her up.
"Uhh, Kate? Why are you talking to the Bidoof and why did you name her Bailey?" asked Keith. We both froze and turned towards the red-haired boy. 'Oh no. No, no, no, NO! Think of something Kate, think!'
"Well, you see... I'm a... Pokémon Whisperer! I talk to pokémon and today I found out that this Bidoof's name is Bailey." I said. 'Did I really just say that?!' I thought as I mentally face-palmed myself.
"A Pokémon Whisperer? Really?"said Bailey with a blank face. I just gave her a little glare before turning to Keith.
"A Pokémon Whisperer?... Well it's better than 'Mewman'. You won't believe the amount of people that claimed they saw a Mewman. Everyone in my family knows that Mewmans. Aren't. Real. Come on let's get going before a 'Mewman' takes all the stylers!" Keith said in a sarcastic tone before laughing as we walked towards Ms April's classroom. Okay, now I have an urge to freeze him and who knows, maybe it would cool down that hot head of his! Who knows, the night is still young, anything can happen.
*(~{^_^}~)*
Keith Pov
As the night went on, Kate was collecting the stylers while I watched from the sidelines. The night had went very well for us, too well for a normal rookie. Kate had found the styler in Ms April's classroom after using Bailey to break one create. It usually takes people five tries, three at least, to get the right one. Then in Kincaid's classroom (Kate's face turned green because of the stench of hairspray) instead of the twin Zubats attacking Kate, they were trying to get away from Kate, which was super weird because they always tackle the students at night. Then in the Library the creates 'magically' got destroyed and the room temperature dropped. I don't know what's going on but I'm going to find out who is Kate Icecia.
We had just reached the staff room and we saw a Pichu with the last styler hanging around it's neck. Kate had started to chase the hyper Pichu along with 'Bailey'. So far nothing weird had happened yet but I'm not letting my guard down.
"Keith, don't just stand there! Help me!" shouted Kate as she chased the Pichu around the room for the hundredth time. I let out a sigh and ran in front of the Pichu, blocking it's path. Kate walked slowly to the Pichu from behind but the Pichu noticed and used it's Thundershock. It didn't touch her but it gave her a fright. She stumbled on her feet before falling backwards.
I felt everything go in slow motion as I ran to catch her. I caught her wrist but I accidentally slipped. I didn't want to have Rhythmi nagging me for getting Kate hurt so I swapped places with Kate and held her waist. I didn't know why but I felt a weird tingle from my right hand going into my head before we hit the ground with a 'thud'.
"Keith, are you okay?" asked Kate with a worried tone in her voice.
"Augggh. Yeah, I'm fine. It's no big-" I said before I went silent. I looked at Kate and noticed somethings that I never noticed from a distance. I noticed that she had a faded scar on the right side of her forehead but was covered by her hair. I also noticed that her lips smell like oren and pacha berries but what caught my attention the most was her eyes. I noticed that her icy blue eyes seemed to shine like diamonds but when I looked really close, I could see tiny hints of black specs in her eyes. I saw so many emotions in those eyes; surprised and happy, I vaguely noticed that there was hurt and a broken-hearted look in them. I still found them pretty and I could feel my heart beating faster than normal.
"So Bailey, what's with the two love birds over there?" Asked a childish voice. 'What the hell?'
"I actually have no idea. Humens are so compla-comple- what that word again?" asked the second voice. 'I'm loosing it? Why are there voices in my head?'
"It's 'complicated' and I agree with you. I think that they're boyfriend and girlfriend." said the first voice. I turned my head towards the voices and I saw nothing but the Pichu smirking and Kate's friend Bidoof, Bailey, with an awed look on her face.
"Ohhhhhhh! That's makes perfect sense! I wonder if they're going to kiss like the people in those movies Janice watch!" said Bailey. Wait... BAILEY SPOKE LIKE A NORMAL PERSON!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed as I crawled like a Krabby into a wall behind me. The others looked at me with weird looks but my brain was going 100 miles a minute. Let's check what is going on so far. 1: Weird things are going on that involves Ice and 2: BAILEY AND A PICHU ARE SPEAKING ENGLISH! WHAT THE HELL?!
"T-T-T-T-T-The pokémon just t-t-t-t-t-TALKED like a human!" I stuttered while pointing at the confused pokémon.
"Keith, what on Earth are you-? Oh no." said Kate before she paled. She lifted the left side of her top until I could see her waist. I saw that on her left side was a white snowflake the size of a clenched fist with a black dot in the middle and there was a pale blue wavy line going around the snowflake until it made a circle. The surprising thing was that it was glowing.
"No, no, no, no, NO! This can't be happening! How can I be so stupid?!" shouted the panicking girl as the two pokémon tried to calm her down.
"What the hell is going on here?!" I shouted. Everyone went quiet and looked at me. I saw that Kate took a deep breath in before walking towards me. When she sat just a metre away, she looked into my eyes full of worry and conflict.
"Keith, what I'm about to tell you is a really big secret so promise me that you won't tell anyone. Not your family, not the teachers, not even Rhythmi and Isaac. Promise me that you won't tell any living thing on this planet." said Kate. I nodded my head and waited to hear what she was going to say. In a few seconds flat, white ears and tails with pale blue streaks on them appeared on Kate. They surprisingly remind me of Mew... WAIT A MINUTE!
"Don't tell me...you're a Mewman?" I said in a state of shock. Kate just nodded her head and looked at me with those blue doe-eyes of hers.
"Yep, I'm an Ice Mewman. Everything that happened so far was because of my powers. The Ice slide, the creates, the Zubats, everything." said Kate in a calm voice. 'Well that explains everything that happened today.' I thought.
"It's also why you can suddenly understand Bailey and Pichu. It's because of my birthmark, the symbol to show people that I'm an Ice Mewman." she said as she pointed to the snowflake symbol on her waist. "Whenever a human touches a Mewman's birthmark they gain some of the Mewman's basic abilities such as understanding pokémon, heightened senses and telepathy." she said with a straight face.
"So that means that I can shoot Ice Beams and freeze bad guys?! YES!" I shouted with happiness as I started to happy dance around the room 'With this I can be a superhero! Ranger by day and Iceman by night! I'll be the most awesome person EVER!'
"She said 'basic abilities', not advanced dangerous moves that could send you to hospital idiot."said Bailey as she sweatdropped along with everyone else in the room. 'There goes my dreams of being Iceman.'
"Keith, the Pichu just gave me the styler. Lets go before people get weird ideas of us." shouted Kate as she walked out the door. I ran behind her with Bailey beside me but I could faintly hear the Pichu say, "Yep, they're going to be a couple someday."
I could definately feel the heat rushing to my cheeks. Stupid Pichu!
*(~{^_^}~)*
Normal POV
"So Keith, I heard from Isaac that you're a strong non-believer in Mewmans. Why is that and how come you didn't say something like, 'I don't believe you for a second!' or 'That is one horrible joke, at least make it believable!' or 'Don't tell me that Rhythmi filled your head with crap!' or something along those lines." said Kate as she, Keith and Bailey walked towards the entrance to the basement with all four stylers. She used her Ice powers to make her hair as spikey and messy as Keith's hair and mimicked his voice when she was quoting him.
"Okay, three things I have to say. 1: I don't talk or act like that, that is a horrible impression of me. 2: My hair does not look like that, it takes many hours to perfect it!" said Keith to Kate while she defrosts her hair to it's original state.
"Yes you do act like that and by 'many hours to perfect it' you forgot to meantion 'of sleep' that should be in the middle. Your third thing?" said Kate.
"3: The reason I said that Mewmans aren't real is because my family are more of a 'seeing is believing' type, my granddad most of all. He only believes in Science and Technology for things in life. Since we never saw a Mewman, we just say they don't exist. Plus with all that happened today, with your mark glowing and I 'somehow' started to understand pokémon, that's proof enough for me to believe that you're the real deal." said Keith as he used his fingers to quote 'somehow'.
"It's not my fault that you touched my birthmark while you tried to touch me you pervert." said Kate while she glared at Keith.
"Hey! I caught you before you hit the ground! You should thank me." said Keith with a frown on his face.
"But you didn't say anything about not being a pervert. So you just basically admit that you are a pervert." said Kate with a smirk. This caused Keith to blush.
"Shut up!" said the blushing red-head.
"Uhh, guys? If you're done arguing, we're here."said Bailey before the argument had gotten worse. The students turned around to see that they were in front of the entrance to the dark basement. They all walked down the dark steps quickly so they could leave as soon as possible.
It was very dark in the basement, it was almost pitch black if it weren't for the light under the door. The basement was filled with cobwebs, boxes and old dust-covered junk. They could faintly hear people talking in the room at the end but not even their strong sense of hearing could hear what they were saying. They walked as quietly as they could and being careful not to cause too much noise.
"Uhhhh. T-This place gives me the h-hibby-gibbies. Lets be quick putting them s-s-stlyers at the door and get the heck outta here." stuttered the sacred baby Bidoof. She felt something licking her head, she let out a little yelp before she jumped on to Kate's head, looking as pale as snow.
"Bailey, what's wrong?" asked Kate before she felt something licking her neck too. She let out a yelp before turning around to see who's behind her, it was Keith. She let out a growl before hitting the poor boy's head, which earned an 'ow!' from the red-head.
"Keith, stop licking us! You're scaring Bailey and you might alert Kincaid!" whisper shouted Kate.
"What are you talking about? I didn't do anything!" whisper shouted Keith to the Ice Mewman.
"Well, who else would have done it you perv!" replied Kate. They were too busy arguing that they didn't hear a noise behind them.
"G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-GASTLY!" shouted Bailey. The two students turned around and saw a group of four Gastlys looking menacing at them.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here? A little Bidoof, a human and a Mewman in our territory."said the leader of the Gastlys. The other Gastlys just repeated the word 'territory' several times before the leader continued.
"How about we give them a 'welcoming party', huh boys?" said the leader before all four of them charged a Shadow ball and released them at the group of three. Before the Shadow Balls hit Kate and Bailey, Keith tackled the two to the ground and making the combined attacks missed their targets.
When Kate gotten up she quickly captured the group of Gastlys with her styler. The Gastlys just looked at Kate before they disappeared into thin air.
"Man, those guys are cowards. Lets put the stylers on the step and get outta here." said Keith as he got up. Kate put the stylers on the step and was about to head for the stairs before she smelled...blood. She turned her head and saw that Keith's right leg was injured from the Shadow Ball attack. She walked back to Keith and kneeled down to look at the bleeding leg.
"You idiot, you got yourself injured." said Kate as she created a cast of ice around the injury to slow down the bleeding. When she got up they both looked into each other's eyes for a few seconds before the door sharply open... revealing Kincaid.
"WHO'S THERE AND WHY ARE YOU IN MY BASEMENT?!" shouted the enraged teacher. Both students frozed at the sight of the teacher in front of them.
"What do we do now?" whispered Kate, frightened by what punishment the teacher would give them.
"There is only one thing we can do in this situation... RUN FOR WHAT EVER LITTLE LIFE YOU HAVE LEFT!" shouted Keith as he dragged Kate by her hand towards the common area with Bailey running behind them.
As the two students and the Bidoof ran towards their respected places, little did they know that a shadowy figure is watching them before disappearing into the darkness.
Rhythmi: PULL! *Cast tries to pull IMN out of the corner but failed*
Kate: AHHHHH! This is useless! We tried everything! New mangas, new stories, EVEN CHOCOLATE AND CUTE THINGS but nothing worked! T_T
Isaac: We haven't tried everything.
Keith: You have an idea Isaac? Well do it.
Isaac: *Ahem* IMN COME HERE, QUICK! KATE AND KEITH ARE GOING TO KISS!
Kate and Keith: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT! *blush*
IMN: *Jumps up and has flowery aura around* THE LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE~!
Rhythmi: You could have done that in the beginning? -_-"
IMN: Everyone sorry about the late update but I'm haveing to study for some upcoming exams. So updates will be slow as this one but please bare with it, it's only temporary!
Rhythmi: We really hoped you like this chapter! ^_^
Kate: Who is this mysterious shadowy figure and what's going to happen next? Well there's only one way to find out! XD
Cast and IMN: READ, REVIEW AND ENJOY! XD